Welcome to the Lehman College Library's Choose Your Own Adventure game! In this game you will need to find some important information for a friend in need. Along the way you will: Learn about the library and some of its services, Get acquainted with the library's website and resources, Be introduced to the principles of critical thinking and evaluating information.

This presentation is used with students for evaluating sources. It covers the differences between popular, scholarly, and news articles. The information cycle is used to inform students about how and why topics are covered in different publications. The presentation ends with an activity where students read a snippet from a publication and are asked to guess the source.

Teaching faculty and librarians can print and assign this scavenger hunt zine to students. This is a ready-made assignment that guides students on a DIY tour of the library and teaches them to use core services by asking them to use the library and record their experiences. The booklet zine can be graded if desired. You can print this and hand it to students, or direct students here to print it themselves.

This session focuses on building subject knowledge in photography and finding background information on an artist. The lesson begins with students closely examining a photograph, following the Visual Thinking Strategies model (https://vtshome.org/). Following the exercise, students are divided into groups and select a monograph on a photographer. As a group, they research the photographer using the book and other library resources (subscription databases) and open web resources (artist’s website, museum websites). The session ends with student groups giving 2-5 minute presentations on a photographer.