Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University Libraries, in collaboration with Veteran Resource and Support Center, will adapt military-style orientation processes to develop an online orientation checklist that familiarizes veterans with the library services and resources essential to their academic success. The project team will design an in-processing checklist, colloquially known to many veterans as a "dance card," that incoming student veterans can use to become oriented to the library. The dance card, which will be developed and made available in an online format, will include two primary components: 1) a pre-assessment that librarians will use to identify specific library resources and services appropriate for each student veteran, and 2) an accompanying series of modules that will guide the student veteran to visit library spaces and services and become familiar with the resources available to them. Texas A&M will develop a model and project that can be adapted by other academic libraries working with student veterans.