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Implementing Kuhlthau: A New Model for Library and Reference Instruction.
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Isbell, Dennis; Kammerlocher, Lisa – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1998
Summarizes Carol Kuhlthau's research on the information search process. Discusses how Kuhlthau's model of students' information search process (ISP) has been integrated into a course at Arizona State University and is being used experimentally as a training tool in the library's reference services. Selected student responses to research process…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Seeking, Library Instruction
Outreach to Student-Athletes through E-mail Reference Service.
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Jesudason, Melba – RSR: Reference Services Review, 2000
Explains why student-athletes on college and university campuses are chosen as a special group for library instruction outreach programs. Gives a brief history of library instruction to athletes' programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, emphasizing the collaboration between the academic advisors of the athletes and the instruction…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Athletes, Athletics, Electronic Mail
Extending the Clan: Graduate Assistantships in the Reference Department.
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Stephenson, Nina K.; St. Clair, Linda – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1996
In a pilot program for meeting their need for additional reference and instructional personnel, the Zimmerman Library of the University of New Mexico employed and then evaluated two graduate students. Administrators concluded that graduate assistants can make valuable contributions to reference, information, and instructional services if they are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Assistantships, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Electronic Reference and Reference Librarians: A Look through the 1990s.
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Tenopir, Carol – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1999
Considers the increase in the variety of electronic reference options in academic libraries based on surveys of ARL (Association of Research Libraries) members. Discusses online catalogs; CD-ROM databases; World Wide Web access; and changes in library instruction, including formal instruction, point-of-use instruction, and Internet instruction.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education
Of Sundials and Digital Watches: A Further Step toward the New Paradigm of Reference.
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Mood, Terry Ann – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1994
Describes the changing role of the library and the reference librarian and the effects of new information technology, changing demographics of student populations, and patrons' expectations for personalized service versus library instruction. Fees for meeting rooms, photocopying, videos, printouts of articles from online full-text, information…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, College Students, Demography
The CD-ROM Network at the Claremont Colleges: Implementation, Instruction, and Remote Access.
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Burrow, Gale; Gunter, Linda – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1994
Describes the role of libraries at Claremont Colleges (California) in implementing a CD-ROM local area network to increase use of electronic databases. Highlights include grant funding; hardware; software; user education for faculty and students; future plans; and impact of the new technology on interlibrary loan, document delivery, and reference…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Software, Databases, Futures (of Society)