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Coloring Books

Mt. SAC Library research coloring books foster college-level scholarship and inquiry through library resources and collections. This guide provides information about the Mt. SAC Library Coloring Books Initiative.

About Mt. SAC Library Coloring Books

Mt. SAC Library Coloring Book Initiative

In 2017, librarians and library staff worked on an outreach-coloring book. Scenes and images invited students, staff, and faculty to explore resources and services at the Mt. SAC Library. The final product was distributed and shared with the campus at Pop-up Libraries, outreach events, and given to students with children who frequent the library. Themes and topics in the coloring book are selected based on campus initiatives, student interest, and more.

 

Mt. SAC Library Coloring Books Mission

Primary

  • Foster college-level scholarship and inquiry through the coloring book initiative.
  • Create and sustain alternative and traditional formats of information literacy discourse, scholarship, learning, and research inquiry through imagery, concepts, and citation.
  • Encourage campus community to collaborate, explore a variety of topics, issues, to promote critical thinking, and the sharing and dissemination of thought as a process.
  • Provide a venue for students to participate in a less rigorous, form of scholarship to inspire future scholarly discourse.

Secondary

  • Invite all levels of participation, interest, and ability to stimulate inquiry and investigation at the college level.
  • Inform the College community about Library services, collections, and curriculum.
  • Provide alternative information competency, library engagement through strategic outreach actions. 

Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will attend a Developing Research Topics workshop to contextualize and practice how to narrow a research topic for their final submission.
  2. Students will inquire into, identify, and examine at least three resources on topics of mental health, owned by Mt. SAC Library, to explore the breadth of the topic.
  3. Students will consult and articulate their topic by a) writing a 1-3 paragraph about their topic b) and create a visual through the exploration of scenes and scenarios in order to share what they learned.
  4. Students will devise citations in MLA 8th edition style in order to cite contributing work of others in their own information production.
  5. Students will become familiar with the Mt. SAC Library collections by actively consulting the library catalog and library databases in to decide how their submission are represented.