It is true that mobile educators contact learners in places where they are, but it is unfair to say they are pandering to the digerati when educators have long ago left the stand-alone chalkboard and the course that has no website. Today the instructor communicates across space, time, and place with learners who exist in other times and places.…

Arguing that providing instruction in the use of common indexes and abstract services is one of the most repetitious, most important, yet most time-consuming activities of the college reference librarian, this guide notes reasons why students fail to take full advantage of currently available guides to the use of common indexes and abstract…