At our small college, freshman seminar is a mandatory requirement for first year students. Often, we received invitations to ‘teach about the library’ to students who had been on campus for 3 weeks. The traditional lessons we taught resulted in low engagement and very little information retention. We also often were asked to teach the same concepts in other first year classes. To combat this, we created a seminar specific first year escape room that familiarized them with the library services and spaces. As a result, librarians have seen more engaged library usage throughout students’ first year.
