PDA Event: Cultivating the Living Room of Campus: Lessons from Tredway Library’s Wellness Initiatives

Kaitlyn Goss-Peirce and Garrett Traylor share Tredway Library’s path to developing 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. Learn the pros, cons, and advice regarding each of the projects undertaken so far.