Teaching source evaluation and search efficiency to community college library users, using tips and tricks to find information in emergency situations, including, but not limited to, a zombie apocalypse. "Use your brain, before someone eats it."

1. Teaching information literacy
through
zombie preparedness.
Caitlin Sheldon
Sarah McFadden
Begley Library
Schenectady County Community College

2. Disaster Preparedness Month
(September)
+ Information Literacy Month
(October)
= Begley Library Zombie
Outbreak (FALL 2012)

3. Search Efficiency
Teaching Objectives
Source Evaluation

4. Using disaster prep to push
careful source selection.
Using your brain. Before
someone eats it.
Using the widespread fear
of zombies to teach
efficient searching.

5. Space Objectives
Decorate
the library
with
zombies.

8. Products
LibGuide
Branding
Infographics
Displays

10. GRAPHIC
S
INFO

11. Library Displays
Brains
Infectious Disease
Personal safety
Survival Guides

13. BRANDING

14. Red
Cross
Disaster
Prep
Day

15. Blood
&
Brains
Drive

16. Outcomes
Over 500 LibGuide views and counting
Blood drive turnout greater than projected
Circulation of display items
Notable student enthusiasm

17. Challenges
Tasteful display of thematic/gory
materials
When to remove one’s tongue from
one’s cheek
in the service of
learning

18. Changes
Scheduling (of other events)
Additional programming
Flash mob
Costume contest

19. Text REDCROSS to 90999
to give $10 to American Red Cross
Disaster Relief
Text PREVENT to 25383 to donate
$10 to help ASPCA care for pets
displaced by Sandy.

20. sheldocm@sunysccc.edu
mcfaddse@sunysccc.edu
libguides.sunysccc.edu/zombies
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