Meeting Them Halfway: Using YouTube in a First Year Information Fluency Program

Beth Hillemann, Macalester College
Aaron Albertson, Macalester College

Information

First year college students are used to gathering information through resources such as YouTube and Google. They need to learn about the approach scholars take to disciplinary inquiry. We designed a standardized session that asked students to critically evaluate a message conveyed through a YouTube video. In the session, they used library and network resources to produce a short bibliography of academic articles and books on the topic.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Beth Hillemann and Aaron Albertson are Reference and Instruction Librarians at Macalester College.