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Peer reviewedStoffle, Carla J.; Bonn, Gabriella – RQ, 1973
A Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians workshop produced this inventory of library orientation and instruction methods. It covers program development; orientation methods; instruction methods such as classes, point-of-use methods, handbooks and guides; and programmed or computer assisted instruction, and evaluation. (LS)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Instruction, Library Skills, Program Development
Peer reviewedPeele, David – RQ, 1973
How to "hook" faculty and students when giving library lectures. (LS)
Descriptors: Attention, College Libraries, Library Instruction, Motivation Techniques
Peer reviewedButterfield, Mary Bolner – RQ, 1973
A cooperative effort, Project LOEX (Library Orientation Exchange), designed to exchange ideas and information relating to orientation and instruction in academic libraries is discussed. (Author/SJ)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Cooperation, Library Instruction, Library Services
Peer reviewedPatterson, Thomas H. – RQ, 1980
Describes the library skills workshops, expressly designed for faculty secretaries, executive secretaries, administrative assistants, and clerk-typists, that have been successfully experimented with by the University of Maine at Orono Libraries. (Author)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Instruction, Library Skills, Nonprofessional Personnel
Peer reviewedCooper, Noelle P. – RQ, 1976
The Mechanized Information Center, a department of The Ohio State University Libraries, offers to the campus community several batch-mode information services from commercially available data bases. The search request interview provides an opportunity for instruction regarding OSU's computer-based literature searches, automated library facilities,…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Databases, Information Centers, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedColeman, Kathleen; Margutti, Elizabeth – RQ, 1977
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Education, Library Instruction, Library Services
Peer reviewedTiffany, Constance J.; Schwarz, Philip J. – RQ, 1976
The University of Wisconsin-Stout library has developed a keyword out of context (KWOC) index to handle repetitive, routine or directional questions for students. (PF)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Instruction, Library Services, Permuted Indexes
Peer reviewedPaterson, Ellen R. – RQ, 1978
A survey of students' knowledge of the library should be a prerequisite for the design of library instruction programs. (JAB)
Descriptors: College Libraries, College Students, Library Instruction, Library Skills
Peer reviewedHutchinson, Harold; Kibbey, Ray Anne – RQ, 1972
The library education program used to indoctrinate the large student body at the University of South Florida is discussed. (NH)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Information Sources, Library Guides, Library Instruction
Peer reviewedKibbey, Ray Anne; Weiner, Anthony M. – RQ, 1973
University of South Florida librarians developed 1) a library lecture series in which presentations were faculty-initiated and tailored to each situation; and 2) a course to help students develop library skills. A computer analysis of library statistics showed increased student library use since the course has been given. (LS)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Evaluation, Lecture Method, Library Instruction
Peer reviewedLubans, John, Jr. – RQ, 1980
Discusses the role of college libraries in the teaching of library skills to undergraduates, and describes a program in which an English department cooperated with library staff in sharing the responsibility for instruction. (FM)
Descriptors: College Libraries, English Departments, Library Instruction, Library Role
Peer reviewedCrawford, Gregory A. – RQ, 1992
Discussion of the effects of CD-ROM journal indexes on interlibrary loan departments focuses on a study conducted at Moravian College that analyzed interlibrary loan requests for journal articles indexed in PsycLIT. Results indicate that appropriate bibliographic instruction can prevent an increase in interlibrary loan requests. (11 references)…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Indexes, Interlibrary Loans
Peer reviewedLubans, John, Jr. – RQ, 1980
This new column discusses the need for gaining administrative and academic support for library instruction programs to improve "library literacy," i.e., the learning of the basic skills for finding information, and summarizes the findings of a five-year experiment at the University of Colorado to improve/increase faculty and student…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Libraries, College Students, Library Administration
Peer reviewedMurray, Carolyn K. – RQ, 1979
Explains the University of Toronto Library's three-year experience in teaching users and staff via practice sessions, slides, and worksheets to use its COM (computer output microfilm) microcatalog, which is the largest in North America. (Author/JD)
Descriptors: Catalogs, College Libraries, College Students, Computer Output Microfilm
Peer reviewedIshaq, Mary R.; Cornick, Donna P. – RQ, 1978
Describes in detail the Library and Research Consultations (LaRC) program for graduate students offered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Copies of the program's brochure and questionnaire are provided, and preliminary evaluative data are tabulated. (JD)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Graduate Students, Librarians, Library Instruction
