Library Icebreaker

Title

Library Icebreaker
Description Librarians can flip key using-the-library talking points and engage students in discussion with this icebreaker activity. These questions address some of the top/most-frequently-pondered questions that first year students have about using the library.

Questions (can be adapted):

  • What is Google Scholar?
  • What if a book or article I need is not at Duke?
  • Is there an easy way to cite & organize all my sources?
  • Isn’t everything on Google?
Steps
  1. Pass index cards out (1 per row/3 students to a card)
  2. Ask students to discuss with their partner/group what they think the answer is to the question. Give them 1-2 minutes.
  3. Ask each group to state their question and answer to the class. Librarian can chime in with additional info/answers to the question.
Tags beyond-google; in-class;
Time 10 minutes (during class)
Attachments None. Index cards on Lilly podium, in Music Library, Bostock 023, or make your own!