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New library initiative seeks to enhance freshman orientation to the library, improve research skills and support retention efforts at Florida International University By Douglas Hasty, First Year Experience Librarian, Green Library, Florida International University, Miami
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When my dad passed away in 2010, it prompted me to reflect on his life and reevaluate my own. During this time, I outlined several milestones that I wanted to achieve personally and professionally. This led me to the notion of creating the First Year Experience. This program seemed like the perfect way to use my professional skills, my personality traits (I'm extremely extroverted) and this new-found vision of how I wanted to spend the next chapter of my life.
Thanks to an open-minded boss and Dean, I was able to launch the First Year Experience initiatives and services here at FIU in early 2011, and I love everything about it. I love teaching the introductory library orientation portion of the freshmen experience classes, which covers an introduction to our library services and facility, and the skills students need to successfully search databases. The freshman experience seminar has 120 sections on the main campus and 30 sections of the additional campus during the Fall Semester.
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As part of this introductory session, I emphasize to the students that I am their personal librarian for the first year. I give them my business card so they can contact me directly. My office is located in an open part of the library where students can easily pop in and ask for help. I guarantee that if I can’t help them with what they need, the next librarian I send them to is the subject matter expert and will own their question until they get the answer or information they need. Read the full story »
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In the report, which was mailed to member libraries this week, Jay Jordan, OCLC President and Chief Executive Officer, wrote that libraries continued their strong use of OCLC systems and services in fiscal 2012. Members of the OCLC cooperative used OCLC to:
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- catalog 423.9 million items online and via batchload
- add 37.9 million new records to the WorldCat database
- arrange 9.2 million interlibrary loans
- perform 58 million end-user reference searches on the OCLC FirstSearch service
- perform 231.3 million click-throughs from partner sites on the Web to the WorldCat.org landing page
- add 21.7 million records to WorldCat for digital objects via the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway.
Mr. Jordan also noted that OCLC is generating new connections for libraries and their users by making the cooperative’s bibliographic records available through linked open data, which will provide a dramatic new level of access to library collections on the Web. In addition, he said that the cooperative’s strategic initiative to build new Webscale management services with libraries continued to grow as 47 libraries were using these services in fiscal 2012. View the report »
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How will you deliver on consumer trends next year?
- Presumers & custowners. Consumers will embrace even more ways to participate in the funding, launch and growth of products and brands they love.
- Mobile moments. Consumers will look to mobile devices to maximize every moment, multi-if-not-hypertasking their experiences, purchases and communications.
- Appscriptions. Digital technologies are the new medicines. Expect consumers to turn to the medical profession to certify and curate health apps and technologies.
- Data myning. Consumers seek to own and make the most of their lifestyle data, and turn to brands that use this data to proactively offer help and advice on how to improve their behavior and/or save money.
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EVENTS Register online for these key membership events, which are open to all ALA Midwinter Meeting registrants.
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WORLDCAT UPDATE |  | Number of records 287,300,333
| Number of holdings 1,921,372,823 | Numbers are updated weekly and reflect only records contributed by libraries. Article-level metadata is not included. | | |
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