The Authority File

Choice continues its conversation with Raymond Pun and Meggan Houlihan, who edited ALA’s The First-Year Experience Cookbook. The editors reveal how collecting “recipes” (actual lesson plans and programs contributed by academic librarians for teaching info literacy to first-year students) expanded their own understanding of the first-year experience and how these programs can ease “library anxiety.”

Choice continues its conversation with Raymond Pun and Meggan Houlihan, who edited ALA’s The First-Year Experience Cookbook. The editors reveal how collecting “recipes” (actual lesson plans and programs contributed by academic librarians for teaching info literacy to first-year students) expanded their own understanding of the first-year experience and how these programs can ease “library anxiety.”

In this debut of Choice’s new podcast, The Authority File, editorial director Bill Mickey speaks with Raymond Pun and Meggan Houlihan about their new book published by the ALA, The First-Year Experience Cookbook, which is a collection of lesson plans and assessment activities for engaging first-year students in the library. Ray and Meggan discuss what it means to be a first-year experience librarian and offer tips for implementing first-year experience programs.

In this debut of Choice’s new podcast, The Authority File, editorial director Bill Mickey speaks with Raymond Pun and Meggan Houlihan about their new book published by the ALA, The First-Year Experience Cookbook, which is a collection of lesson plans and assessment activities for engaging first-year students in the library. Ray and Meggan discuss what it means to be a first-year experience librarian and offer tips for implementing first-year experience programs.