Library instruction on the go: podcasting at the Kresge Library

Abstract

The Kresge Business Administration Library serves a population of 3500 business school students plus faculty and staff of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Like most libraries, the Kresge Library had a set of traditional, classroom-based, library instruction sessions designed to introduce the students to the overwhelming amount of resources available to them at the Library. In recent years, the Library had reduced the number of traditional classroom-based instruction programmes in order to try web-based methods, such as posting instruction session handouts on the website and ‘Camtasia’ type videos with screen-shots that would allow students to get the information when and where they needed it.