PDA Occasion: Enjoyable within the Stacks: Enhancing Pupil Experiences via Non-Conventional Library Occasions

In at present’s educational panorama, faculty libraries are greater than only a place for examine—they are a hub for creativity, rest, and connection. With the rising pressures college students face, our library has taken the initiative to create a variety of partaking, non-traditional occasions that not solely present stress aid but additionally foster a stronger connection between college students and the library.

This session will delve into a number of the progressive and enjoyable occasions we host, equivalent to Laser Tag Night, Game Nights, Mini Golf within the Stacks, and Trivia Night, all designed to attract college students into the library in sudden and thrilling methods. Additionally, we provide actions like jewellery making and an exercise station throughout exams, giving college students a artistic outlet and a break from the depth of educational life.

By integrating these actions into our library companies, we now have seen a noticeable enhance in scholar engagement, not solely in these occasions but additionally in conventional library companies. Our college students really feel extra comfortable with the library atmosphere and usually tend to method librarians for educational help and help.

Presenters:

Hillary Arieux is the Resource Sharing Librarian at Florida Southern College. She is the topic liaison to Communications and handles copyright inquiries acquired by the library. She is an lively participant of FLA and FACRL.

Julie Hornick is the pinnacle of library instruction at Florida Southern College and supplies educational and analysis help to plenty of faculties and departments. Prior to working in educational libraries, she spent 13 years as a faculty librarian in South Carolina, working in elementary and center college libraries. Professionally, she has chaired the LIRT President’s Program Committee and the ACRL Instruction Section’s Teaching Methods Committee, along with serving on the manager board of the Florida Association of College and Research Libraries. Her analysis pursuits embrace incorporating new applied sciences into instruction, important info literacy instruction, and gamification of instruction.

Randall M. MacDonald joined Florida Southern College in 1986 as a Reference Librarian and has since served as Collection Development Librarian, Director of the Library from 2007 to 2024, and at the moment as Dean of Library Services. He served as President of the Tampa Bay Library Consortium in 2012 and, since 2009, has contributed to accreditation efforts with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

Marina Morgan is the Head of Technical Services and Senior Librarian at Roux Library, Florida Southern College. She supervises all of the division’s operations, serves because the ProQuest Electronic Theses and Dissertations and Folio ILS administrator, manages the Institutional Repository, and co-manages the Digital Collections with the College Archivist. In 2026, she accomplished the Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians on the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her analysis pursuits embrace management, digital humanities, metadata, and AI. Marina can be the present President of FLA.

Micah Walsleben is an Instructional Services Librarian at Florida Southern College, the place she supplies library instruction and analysis help to most of the faculty’s arts and humanities departments. Her background is primarily in educational and well being sciences libraries. In addition to serving on committees inside the faculty, she is a committee-serving member of the Florida Library Association.

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