Discusses the unique problems and special needs of graduate students and how one library, dedicated to serving graduate students, attempts to provide specialized programs to meet their needs. The setting of goals, the establishment of priorities, and staff involvement in the planning and development of new programs are reviewed. (Author)

A survey of students' knowledge of the library should be a prerequisite for the design of library instruction programs. (JAB)

Thirty packages, consisting of student handbooks which explain information sources and provide exercises for hands-on experience, were produced by the Traveling Workshops Experiment. Their development, their testing and usage in universities and polytechnics, their advantages, and their adaptability to public and special libraries are discussed.…

The Hunter College Midtown Library was designed to aid and give active guidance to students who lacked library proficiency. (Author/PF)

Assuming a correlation between library use and academic achievement, colleges must foster greater library use and must make students and faculty aware of the importance and validity of library instruction in information-handling skills. (DC)

The library education program used to indoctrinate the large student body at the University of South Florida is discussed. (NH)

No time could be more propitious than the present to integrate library instruction into the college curriculum -- the need for instruction is critical; students are insisting upon relevant education with individualized instruction; faculty are seriously interested in meeting these demands; and information and bibliographic tools are available in…

Although library instruction in university libraries is agreed to be a "good thing, insufficient attention has been paid in this country to the human aspects of such instruction, to the people involved in it and to the social situation in which they find themselves. (Editor)

Describes a program for acquainting high school seniors with the resources available in university libraries and the means for using them. Also notes the observations of librarians regarding incoming students' common attitude toward academic libraries, an attitude characterized by the term "research shock." (PGD)

Discusses the successful educational media course in library instruction at Miami University, Ohio, and presents the results of a survey of the educational background and previous library instruction of students taking the course. A copy of the questionnaire is appended. (RBF)

Results of a study of college freshmen using a bibliographic instruction model that considers interaction of library tools, styles of instruction, and Robert M. Gagne's Learning Hierarchy indicate a superiority of programed instruction at factual and problem-solving levels, and also a need for further experimentation. Eight references are…

Describes experiences at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley (Missouri) with the use of wireless technology and a local area network for library bibliographic instruction. Discusses faculty input and attitudes; technical challenges; and experiences at other community colleges that have found wireless connections more economical than…

The current study sought to measure the influence of a one-hour library training/orientation session on college students' library use and library skill development. Data analysis revealed a statistically significant increase in student library use while there was no statistically significant increase in library skill development. Some issues,…

A three-year study at the University of Alabama compared a traditional lecture method for teaching library research skills with a course-integrated, computer-enhanced approach by assessing each method's impact on the quality of bibliographies from engineering students' term papers. In four of the five semesters, no significant differences were…