HELIG Webinar "Going virtual with Library orientation"

With the current Covid-19 situation and the start of the academic year upon us, the question on academics and librarians' minds are: "how are we going to deal with orientation?".  There is no doubt that orientation forms an integral part of the First Year Experience (FYE) across universities. In most cases, the very first academic library visit for a first year student is during orientation where they are introduced to their librarian and library and information services offered.

Following the first webinar hosted by WCHELIG in 2014 on "Library Orientation: is it still necessary", there have been several discussions and sharing of best practices on 'library as place / space', physically and virtually still fundamental in student success.  Since many academic libraries might not be ready to open their physical spaces due to the Covid-19 situation, calls for a time to have a discussion on academic-librarian collaboration to implement innovative online orientation programmes for the 2021 Academic Year.

Join us on Friday, 29 January 2021 at 15:00 for an informal conversation online over coffee to share ideas and current best practices to implement into the 2021 orientation programmes. The session will be facilitated by Dr. Kleinveldt, HELIG Acting Chair and academic at CPUT, and Ms Thomson, WCHELIG Convener and faculty librarian at UCT.