Helping students Make the connection between OPAC and the Library Collection

#shelfie lesson to bridge the gap between OPAC and the shelf

One of the areas where students seem to struggle as library users is finding the actual book on the shelf, after they have done a search in our OPAC.  They can search the digital collection and find books they want, and they can browse to find books they want, but get stuck when it comes to putting those two things together.

That is where the #shelfie lesson becomes the bridge to those two skills.  This lesson forces them to search for a specific title and then locate it on the shelf, using a picture as evidence that tehy were able to actually locate the book.  That also helps cut down on the re-shelving of books, since they don’t have to bring it to me, they can just use a shelf marker and then re-shelve it themselves!​

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