Abstract

With the increasing cost of education and the need for high-impact teaching strategies, the instructor of a Visual Merchandising course collaborated with the campus library to provide students with a real-life experience-based project. This project focused on the use of library resources, exhibition space, and other free or low-cost educational resources for this core fashion merchandising course. The findings of the study reveal that the collaboration benefited both the fashion merchandising students and the library. It highlighted the important role academic libraries can play in curriculum courses beyond the information literacy session.