Leverage Campus Resources for First Year Graduate Student Outreach

Presenter(s) Information

Mandy L. Havert, University of Notre DameFollow
Mark Robison, University of Notre DameFollow

Start Date

3-17-2020 9:45 AM

End Date

3-17-2020 10:15 AM

Author(s) Bio

Mandy is the Graduate Outreach and Digital Research Librarian at the Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame. Mandy builds relationships with graduate students to encourage the use of the Libraries’ new and existing services and to strengthen research and scholarly output for students at all levels. Her work includes planning and implementing workshops, providing library instruction for students in the Writing and Rhetoric classes as well as in graduate seminars, and facilitating conversations between library leadership and student advisory panels. She is interested in connecting people to resources, how organizations work, mentoring, and leadership development.

Keywords

outreach, first-year, partnership

Description of Proposal

Graduate student orientation is a time filled with a fire hose of information coming at students transitioning to new communities, new studies and trying to keep it all under control. In partnership with subject-area librarians and the graduate school administration, My colleague Mark Robison (Political Science, Global Affairs) and I are designing a first-year graduate student outreach program that will connect incoming graduate students with their subject librarians to learn resources the Hesburgh Libraries offer along with the services they may not know are available.

What takeaways will attendees learn from your session?

Attendees will learn how to think broadly and leverage connections in the graduate school offices, departmental offices, and marketing & communications staff. A draft outreach plan will be shared along with the simple assessment design for this pilot-year implementation. Time will be made available for questions and ongoing conversation is strongly encouraged.