Is leveling up your library's social media game one of your New Year's resolutions? One of the best ways to engage followers to is to provide a consistent stream of fun/useful content. Understanding that libraries don't always have the time to generate all of the content they'd like, we're here to help! 

By Katelyn Angell, Zena George, and Raymond Pun

2017 saw a growing interest on the part of librarians in fake news, open educational resources (OER), diversity, and accessibility. What will this year bring? Three academic librarians offered up the following conversation to explore potential FYE trends for 2018 and beyond.

Learn how to engage faculty and students in understanding information literacy and critical thinking in a sustainable way with Ellen Carey, Librarian and Instructor at Santa Barbara City College. In this live webcast on Thursday, March 22, 2-3pm ET, you’ll hear Ellen’s experience implementing Credo InfoLit Modules at her institution.

By Tammy E. Ivins and Raymond Pun

FYE Correspondent Raymond Pun recently interviewed Tammy E. Ivins from the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), Randall Library. From outreach to collaboration, they discussed the library’s role in providing transfer student services and activities on and off campus. For even more tips and ideas, see our recent post on helping transfer students succeed.

Discover how to implement the Association of College and Research Library’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education on your campus with Dave Harmeyer, Associate Dean and Professor, University Libraries, Azusa Pacific University, CA. In our live webcast, Thursday, March 8 at 2-3pm ET, Dave will show you how to:

As part of Credo’s new InfoLit Learning Community, hear from Karen Carreras-Hubbard, Coordinator of Library Services at Berkshire Community College, on Thursday, February 22 at 2-3pm ET online. In this live webcast, Karen will show you how to engage faculty at your institution to make information literacy a priority that is deeply embedded in the culture of your school.

First Year Experience programs have been shown to improve student success—but what about the following year? After completing their first year, sophomores may still struggle (commonly refered to at "the sophomore slump"), but they won’t have the same FYE support structure. This is something to consider as many universities have focused on FYE programs, but have neglected to develop a strategy to retain students in their second year, another critical period in the academic journey.

We are excited to launch the InfoLit Learning Community, an instructional and collaborative platform that will give you tools for optimizing the implementation of Credo InfoLit Modules and Credo Online Reference Service into your institution’s workflows. Over three weeks starting February 22, we will host live online sessions with librarians who have had success deeply integrating information literacy solutions into their programs. They’ll give you tips for engaging and communicating with faculty, using key concepts for successfully implementing a program to plan, expedite, and measure information literacy within your library and across campus.

Have you done outreach to your transfer students? If not, you may want to consider transfer students as another important student group to support. Building upon previous posts in this series covering orientations for first year students and international student events, in this post we’ll look at outreach services to transfer students.

2018 is barely a day old and already shaping up to be a pivotal year for libraries. Funding for academic and public libraries has never been more precarious, but support and patronship of libraries, by Millennials in particular, is robust and growing. The promise of the Information Age has hit a rough patch in the form of weaponized fake news, but librarians are finding new and innovative ways to provide information literacy skills to their users. Here are a few of the things we’ll be keeping an eye on in 2018: