Academic Library Services for First-Generation Students
Presenting strategies for improving academic library services for first-generation students, this timely book focuses on programs and services that will increase student academic engagement and success.

Demographic data and secondary school graduation rates suggest that colleges and universities will enroll growing numbers of first-generation students over the next decade. Academic Library Services for First-Generation Students focuses on ways academic libraries can uniquely contribute to the successful transition to college and year-to-year retention of first-generation students.

The practical recommendations in this book include a wide range of ideas for the design and modification of library services and facilities to be more inclusive of the needs of first-generation students. All of the recommendations are specifically aimed at addressing challenges faced by first-generation students. Topics covered range from study spaces and service points to information literacy instruction and campus partnerships. The book makes the case—both explicitly and implicitly—that academic libraries can help address known risk factors (e.g., by helping students build academic cultural competencies) and thereby improve success, persistence, and retention for first-generation students. Academic library professionals in both leadership roles and public service positions will benefit from the actionable strategies presented here.

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Academic Library Services for First-Generation Students
Presenting strategies for improving academic library services for first-generation students, this timely book focuses on programs and services that will increase student academic engagement and success.

Demographic data and secondary school graduation rates suggest that colleges and universities will enroll growing numbers of first-generation students over the next decade. Academic Library Services for First-Generation Students focuses on ways academic libraries can uniquely contribute to the successful transition to college and year-to-year retention of first-generation students.

The practical recommendations in this book include a wide range of ideas for the design and modification of library services and facilities to be more inclusive of the needs of first-generation students. All of the recommendations are specifically aimed at addressing challenges faced by first-generation students. Topics covered range from study spaces and service points to information literacy instruction and campus partnerships. The book makes the case—both explicitly and implicitly—that academic libraries can help address known risk factors (e.g., by helping students build academic cultural competencies) and thereby improve success, persistence, and retention for first-generation students. Academic library professionals in both leadership roles and public service positions will benefit from the actionable strategies presented here.

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Presenting strategies for improving academic library services for first-generation students, this timely book focuses on programs and services that will increase student academic engagement and success.

Demographic data and secondary school graduation rates suggest that colleges and universities will enroll growing numbers of first-generation students over the next decade. Academic Library Services for First-Generation Students focuses on ways academic libraries can uniquely contribute to the successful transition to college and year-to-year retention of first-generation students.

The practical recommendations in this book include a wide range of ideas for the design and modification of library services and facilities to be more inclusive of the needs of first-generation students. All of the recommendations are specifically aimed at addressing challenges faced by first-generation students. Topics covered range from study spaces and service points to information literacy instruction and campus partnerships. The book makes the case—both explicitly and implicitly—that academic libraries can help address known risk factors (e.g., by helping students build academic cultural competencies) and thereby improve success, persistence, and retention for first-generation students. Academic library professionals in both leadership roles and public service positions will benefit from the actionable strategies presented here.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440870170
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/16/2020
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 6.15(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Xan Arch is dean of the Clark Library at the University of Portland. Arch has published and presented nationally on topics ranging from library technology to best practices for managing through change.

Isaac Gilman is dean of University Libraries at Pacific University. He is founding editor and publisher of the Journal of Librarianship & Scholarly Communication.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

1 First-Generation Students in Context 1

2 First-Generation Students in the Academic Library 27

3 Exploring Perception of First-Generation Students' College and Library Experience 41

4 Library Space 68

5 Library Instruction 88

6 Outreach and Partnerships 104

7 The Path Forward for Academic Libraries 121

Appendix A Counselor and Library Surveys 135

Appendix B Student Interview Questions 141

Index 147

What People are Saying About This

La'Tonya Rease Miles

"A thoughtful, engaging, and first-generation–affirming text that makes a strong case for the transformational role of library services. Strengthened by considerable research, the book is filled with concrete steps for consideration. This project leads the way in terms of 21st-century support for first-generation college populations."

LaiTonya Rease Miles

"A thoughtful, engaging, and first-generation–affirming text that makes a strong case for the transformational role of library services. Strengthened by considerable research, the book is filled with concrete steps for consideration. This project leads the way in terms of 21st-century support for first-generation college populations."

Adriene Lim

"This exceptional treatise on the unique characteristics, experiences, and needs of first-generation college students is long overdue in the library field. Arch and Gilman bring together their passionate perspectives and the results of their own research with a thorough examination of the historical context and previously disparate studies and scholarship to provide strengths- and assets-based strategies that can be used to improve library spaces, instruction, and outreach for these students. This convincing work is a call to action for all practitioners in higher education who wish to break down the institutional, systemic barriers that exist for all underserved students in our complex environments."

La'Tonya Rease Miles

"A thoughtful, engaging, and first-generation–affirming text that makes a strong case for the transformational role of library services. Strengthened by considerable research, the book is filled with concrete steps for consideration. This project leads the way in terms of 21st-century support for first-generation college populations."

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