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

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. 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

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

7. Questions?

8. 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

9. 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.”