Spotlight on Programming
Newly hired librarian Jason Anfinsen applied his previous work experience in theater and radio to develop new opportunities to engage students at the library, establishing innovative programming that attracted students to the library's spaces. Below he describes two of these initiatives, Nightbrary and Financial Literacy.
Financial Literacy and Nightbrary events
Narrative by Jason Anfinsen, Research and Instruction Librarian, Sanford/Lake Mary campus 
FINANCIAL LITERACY WORKSHOPS
Last year the College Libraries teamed up with Addition Financial to teach an educational series on financial literacy. Faculty from the Libraries, Social Sciences, and Accounting programs (across multiple campuses) built content with subject matter experts from Addition Financial for virtual and in-person workshops. Throughout the three-part financial education series, students learned skills and strategies for financial success, along with fundamental introductions to savings, banking, and credit card basics. In addition to learning new strategies for financial success, students earned First-Year Exerience (FYE) credit for attending.
NIGHTBRARY
Nightbrary was launched last year as a new conceptual approach to traditional library outreach and programming with a focus on engagement, inclusion, technology, and play. With this unique outreach initiative, students participated in a unique, freeform, experiential learning series co-created with library staff and partners from across the College. Nightbrary events intentionally fused the arts (paintings, music, theatre) and emerging technologies into library programming to engage students. Nightbrary presented in-person and virtual opportunities for critical thinking, intellectual wellness, meaningful connections, and all-around play, wonder, and risk-taking exploration with students across the College. Librarians purchased and rolled out a new live streaming platform, Streamyard, to increase virtual student engagement opportunities, and document the innovative series for our YouTube channel. The primary need for Nightbrary was to develop innovative and engaging programming that would generate interest and invite participation to incentivize a return to the campus libraries in this new, post-COVID era. Nightbrary has made a fundamental change in the way librarians deliver information literacy instruction and how library staff works together through shared governance to conceptualize and carry out service-minded and student-ready programs. To assess these events, the library tracked user engagement in LibInsight and collected email addresses for the ACRL Project Outcome program survey.