Holmner, Marlene

Mostert, Bennie

Van Wyk, Werner

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Purdue UniversityPurdue e-PubsProceedings of the IATUL Conferences 2013 IATUL ProceedingsThe use of a virtual library tour to assist first yearstudents in becoming library literate.Werner Van WykUniversity of Pretoria, werner.vanwyk@up.ac.zaMarlene HolmnerUniversity of PretoriaBennie MostertUniversity of PretoriaThis document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact epubs@purdue.edu foradditional information.Werner Van Wyk, Marlene Holmner, and Bennie Mostert, "The use of a virtual library tour to assist first year students in becominglibrary literate.." Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences. Paper 4.http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/2013/papers/4The use of a virtual library tour to assist first year students in becoming library literate. Mr W. van Wyk, Dr M Holmner & Mr B. Mostert. Department of Information Science University of Pretoria South Africa Introduction • ‘‘Despite the educational justification for library instruction, few campuses . . . welcome it unreservedly’’ (Breivik, 1982) • It is becoming more challenging for academic library staff to offer library literacy courses.  • This is also true at the University of Pretoria which currently has thousands of first year students enrolled. • Students attend a two hour introductory session on library literacy • Impossible to take these students through the actual university library. Virtual Library tour • A virtual library tour was designed by the School of IT. • Runs on a MySQL database. • Consists of panoramic views in which the user experiences the feeling of being in the library. • Every panoramic view is made up of 36 individual high resolution photos stitched together with Autostitch. • Portals are created for navigation purposes enabling the user to “move” through pre-defined sections of the UP academic library.  Virtual Library tour statistics • 3581 tours run from 28 January to 06 February 2013 • Average of 3-4 minutes to complete tour • Locations visited 44 597 times Live demonstration of Virtual Library Tour 

The use of a virtual library tour to assist first year students in becoming library literate.

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The use of a virtual library tour to assist first year students in becoming library literate.

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