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Augustana College’s Tredway Library takes pride in its moniker of being the living room of the campus. However, like many others, the library faced a decrease in student engagement in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic; moreover, situational factors such as reduced campus communication outlets and several curriculum redevelopments compounded the situation by limiting both messaging opportunities and library capacity to respond to student needs. Survey data collected from senior students over the past five years underscores an initial decrease and steady regrowth in self-reported sense of belonging within the library, aligning with the pandemic and post-pandemic library engagement data.

Tredway librarians prioritized the development of targeted wellness-related collections and programming centered on giving students resources and spaces to simply be, rather than be in an act of becoming, in response to expressed gaps in student support. These projects, ranging from the expansion of a leisure collection to include self-care materials to curating lego sets for passive community programming and even to the present reimagining of a defunct computer lab into a wellness lounge, have each invited and engaged students throughout the development and realization processes. This presentation will overview Tredway Library’s path to developing our wellness initiatives with this active student buy-in, along with some pros, cons, and advice regarding each of the projects we have undertaken so far.

Presenters:

Kaitlyn Goss-Peirce (she/her) is a Research and Instruction Librarian for the Humanities Division at Augustana College's Thomas Tredway Library, where she also serves as the Library Instruction coordinator. With prior experience in public libraries and archives, one of her passions is enriching the library's role as an accessible third space. She earned her Master's of Library and Information Science from Simmons University. 

Garrett Traylor (he/they) is a Research and Instruction Librarian and Assistant Professor at Augustana College's Tredway Library. He is the library's outreach coordinator and liaison to the Arts & Communication Division, to the business, Spanish, and Swedish programs, and to the Augustana Prison Education Program. He previously worked at Illinois College for five years after earning his master's from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Traylor's varied research interests have led to publications on topics such as video games, Scandinavian cinema, adaptation theory, and poetry, and presentations on AI, wellness, and zines. Happy husband, dad to two, and dog dad.

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SAVE THE DATE - REGISTRATION AVAILABLE IN EARLY 2026

Join CARLI as we discuss a distributed shared print journal storage solution from the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST). The webinar will be presented by Alison Wohlers, Program Manager, and Nika Burns Teshin, Shared Print Analyst, for WEST. There is no cost to attend this Zoom webinar.

This event will be recorded.

Agenda

• What is WEST?
  • WEST by the Numbers
  • What the Trust provides
  • What’s happening in 2026-2027
  • Membership and Cost-share
• CARLI Member Questions

About the Presenters

Alison Wohlers is the Assistant Director for Shared Print at California Digital Library, a role which includes serving as Program Manager for WEST, as well as facilitating collaborative print management in the UC Libraries. Nika Burns Teshin is the Shared Print Analyst at California Digital Library serving both WEST and UC Libraries through supporting collections analysis, systems development, operations, and communications.

About West

The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) is a distributed shared print journal archiving program founded in 2010 and hosted by the California Digital Library at the University of California. WEST members collaborate to collectively preserve and provide continued access to print collections in the long-term. This work is rooted in data-driven decision-making and sustainable practices that leverage group action to augment local capacity for strategic collection management and development.

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Registration: Registration will be available in early 2026.

Registration closes at Noon on January 30, 2026.

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