The Armacost Library Mystery Activity is an orientation activity designed for first-year students to orient themselves to the library and learn key library skills.
In this activity, students take on the role of an investigator solving a supernatural mystery in the library and retrace the steps of a researcher. As they uncover the mystery, students will:
This activity will take approximately 40 minutes to complete.
There are two options for completing this activity:
Each option of the activity will see students complete the same tasks in the same sequence, but the in-class version has multiple routes to prevent each group of students from following each other. For example, each route sees students begin with finding a bound periodical, but each version has them find a different title in different sections.
This is a brief overview of the steps students will take to complete this activity. Students completing this in-class will go through these same steps with the addition of checking in with the whole class and a discussion at the end of the activity.