Tips From the Pros: Selfie as Motivator, Community Builder

Students are often more comfortable doing course-related research online than in a library. Online research is convenient, and they're used to it. But it's not always the most reliable. One way to motivate students to do at least some of their work in physical libraries is to have students take photos of themselves (selfies) as they search the stacks.

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