Erased from FYE: Designing a First Year Experience Mobile Game at Pearsall Library

by Ian Boucher

When I started my first part-time library job at North Carolina Wesleyan College, one of my duties was to create video tutorials introducing library users to the website and topics like plagiarism and scholarly journals. As I learned about user motivation and engagement during my MLIS program, I became interested in video game tutorials. For some topics, like accessing resources, a video is generally preferable for quick reference, but for conveying a concept like plagiarism,...