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Research Challenge of the WeekLibrary Instruction and Informal Learning Spaces
Brittany Soder - Undergraduate Library Research Assistant
What is RCOW? RCOW by Numbers | 2017-2018
12 tweets
48 student submitted
questions
11 Tumblr posts
Engagement
In November 2017, the local newspaper featured Kelsey Hammer’s RCOW on the squirrel population at UNC. Hammer was interviewed, as well as a local scientist to elaborate on her research.
The Research Challenge of the Week (RCOW) brings together student questions and practical research skills. UNC students can pose questions and then graduate assistants at the Undergraduate Library select questions to answer, utilizing library resources and modeling the research process in an informal learning space.
Why are my suitemates
such nerds?
Where did my motivation go?
Where’s Waldo?
• Voice in library • Seeing the research process outside of the classroom
• Exposure to different types of resources
Student Benefits• Reference training with creative questions
• Forces staff out of their research comfort zone
• Allows for staff to learn different UNC Library resources
GA Staff Benefits
Questions asked by students
Tumblruncrcow.tumblr.com
Student Newspaperdailytarheel.com
Twitter@rbhouseul
We post one tweet a week. Our answers range in length from one word to 250 words. Our engagement flucate between 3 to 11 likes, as well as a couple of retweets.
Tumblr is a weird place. Our “notes,” range from 1 to 9. These notes could be a like or a reblog. One post from two years has gotten 24 notes in the past month.
Why’s my poop
green?