Supporting First-Generation Students through Care Summer Bridge
Strategic Alignment
Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Promote Critical Thinking
Leads/Involved
Emily McLellan; Nikki Morse; Teaching, Learning, & Engagement; Access Services & Delivery
About
In our partnership with the Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement (CARE), we help provide support for first-generation students participating in the Summer Bridge program, which provides a supportive transition for these students to FSU. We coordinate a half-day library orientation for students to explore the Libraries through three information stages with games and engagement throughout, providing an unique and personable introduction to the Libraries. In 2022, 390 students participated in the Care Summer Bridge Libraries Orientation.
Outcomes
Direct and focused engagement for our first-generation students, providing necessary library support for CARE students.
Success
The increase of the Libraries’ participation in the Summer Bridge (from a short library presentation to a half-day event) as well as a strengthening of our partnership with CARE as evidenced by their participation in our recruitment process as well as specialized crash course reviews from our tutoring team in addition to mandatory library hours for CARE students. It has also been measured by feedback from the CARE ambassadors as well as from CARE faculty & staff.
Feminist Women's Health Center Records
Strategic Alignment
Ensure Equitable Access to Information
Leads/Involved
Rory Grennan, Robert Rubero, Michaela Westmoreland, Trey Woodall, Haley McGuyre
About
A continuing, multi-year processing project to improve access to records of defunct Tallahassee women's health center.
Outcomes
Creation of ASpace finding aid; an improved folder list; identified priorities for assessment of confidentiality and further preservation work. This also provides meaningful access to stakeholders doing deep research.
Success
A more discoverable and accessible book collections.