Using Primo in Information Literacy Credit Courses Katie Townsend & Sarah Ralston Eastern Oregon University

Overview Introduction What we experience doing Reference What we know about Freshmen from teaching How this has informed our approach to Primo What we’ll do differently next time

What we experience doing reference We anticipated using Primo as a tool to begin searching Learned we need to be strategic about recommending Primo  Recommending Primo is situational Justifies why we need to teach Primo in courses

Library credit courses at EOU Upper division Lower division LIB 127: Information Literacy On campus and online First Year Experience

What we know about Freshmen from teaching: They like their “go-to” databases! Attached to Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Mostly want articles Forget about Primo once exposed to databases Prefer databases because there are fewer steps

LIB 127: Information Literacy 3 credits Moving from Standards to Framework Information & Information Sources Information Sources & Information Need Searching & Finding Using Information Ethically

Questions?

UNI 101: University Studies 3 credits First Year Experience course Co-taught, facilitators and librarians Students will: recognize how Pierce Library resources and services may be used to increase success evaluate, select and ethically use appropriate information resources

The Future! Re-structuring around a research project Using Primo to frame discussion around: source types and format information creation processes & evaluation While introducing students to a powerful tool Some inspiration provided by Kevin Seeber’s 2014 article, “Teaching Format as a Process in an era of Web-scale Discovery.”