id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15907 Walter, Scott The Role of the Library in the First College Year. Ed. Larry Hardesty. Columbia, S.C.: National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, University of South Carolina (The First-Year Experience Monograph Series, no. 45), 2007. 296p. $40 (ISBN 1889271543). LC 2006-100837. 2007-11-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1230 58 48 “Initiatives” chapters provide information on best practices, including studies of librarian involve- ment in FYE programs across the country, and of the emergence of the “First-Year- Experience Librarian” as a professional position supporting the development of sustainable, programmatic collaboration between librarians and FYE educators. Librarian involvement with FYE programs (and with fi rst-year student instruction more broadly) has been documented many times, but this collection represents the most substan- tial attempt to bring discussions of the academic library as a “critical and central learning environment of undergraduate education in the United States” into the mainstream literature of higher educa- tion. cache/crl-15907.pdf txt/crl-15907.txt