More Than Just a Walk Through: Connect Library Users to Resources with New 360 Tools

Jennifer Hamilton; Blair Stapleton; Heather C. Plaisance; Elizabeth B. Jones

doi:10.1080/10691316.2021.1924911

More Than Just a Walk Through: Connect Library Users to Resources with New 360 Tools

Jennifer Hamilton
, Blair Stapleton
, Heather C. Plaisance
, Elizabeth B. Jones

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

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Abstract

New embedding and hyperlinking features of 360 tours have the potential to significantly impact how users access information and library services. This article examines current uses, benefits, and challenges of 360 tours for academic libraries. Librarians at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Edith Garland Dupré Library are creating tours that serve as a point of access for library services, information, and instruction. Based on their own experiences and rooted in practices from early virtual online library tour development, the authors identify best practices for 360 tour creation and areas of opportunity for future development and testing.

Original language	American English
Journal	College and Undergraduate Libraries
Volume	27
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10691316.2021.1924911
State	Published - May 13 2021

Keywords

360 tours
designing learning spaces
library orientation
virtual library instruction
virtual library tours
virtual reality

Disciplines

Library and Information Science

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