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Dickson, Laura K.; And Others – 1987
The New Start program at the University of Nebraska-Omaha was initiated in 1975 to focus on the needs and concerns of nontraditional students, i.e, individuals who are at least 25 years old and have been away from formal education for at least three years. Offered as an elective course for one hour of credit, the program includes reviews of basic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Library Instruction, Nontraditional Students, Refresher Courses
Hennepin County Library, Minnetonka, MN. – 1987
This collection of materials for a three-hour instructional program for young people and adults in the effective use of the public library includes an introduction to the program, a teaching guide for the librarian, a packet of materials for students, and a summary of 90 evaluations of the program as it was presented at two area libraries and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Library Instruction, Library Services

Jesudason, Melba – Reference Services Review, 1989
Explains the basic requirements of Proposition 48 and discusses why college student-athletes are an important target for library user education, and how libraries can help student-athletes maintain their eligibility. A library user education module for student-athletes developed at the University of Wisconsin at Madison is described. (20…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Athletes, Athletics, College Admission

Worrell, Diane – 1991
These two brief guides are designed to assist users in searching the GPO Monthly Catalog of Government Publications and the ERIC databases on CD-ROM produced by Silver Platter Information, Inc. Each guide contains step-by-step instructions for: (1) simple subject searching using basic Boolean connectors; (2) displaying and printing; (3) correcting…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Databases, Education, Government Publications
Arkansas Univ., Fayetteville. Mullins Library. – 1990
These instructional materials were designed for students enrolled in Communication 1313 (COMM 1313), "Fundamentals of Communication," a course required for most curricula at the University of Arkansas. They include a library guidebook ("Guide to Mullins Library" by John M. Maxstadt and others) and computer-generated assignment…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Assignments, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Bousfield, Wendy; And Others – 1984
Used in freshman composition courses and some other introductory Syracuse University (SU) classes, the primary purpose of this illustrated workbook is to provide students with experience using the different features of the SU Libraries' online catalog, SULIRS. The workbook's self-paced exercises correspond to the text of two SU Libraries…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Library Catalogs
Gilton, Donna L. – 1993
This document presents the syllabus for Library Instruction at the University of Rhode Island. The course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of bibliographic instruction and concentrates in the following areas: the history, philosophy, and structure of library education; cognitive aspects of library instruction; forms of library…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Assignments, Bibliographies, Class Activities
Auraria Library, Denver, CO. – 1991
In order to meet the needs of a diverse user population from three different institutions of higher learning, this information packet presents a menu of instructional options from which patrons can choose. (Located on a large urban campus, the Auraria Library serves students, faculty, and staff from the Community College of Denver, the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Seeking, Library Collections
Nath, Herbert – 1992
This manual consists of sets of guides for six CD-ROM databases: (1) ABI/INFORM, a business administration CD-ROM published by UMI; (2) Books in Print (an outstanding tool for compiling bibliographies on any subject); (3) ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), an education database in the version published by SilverPlatter; (4) MLA, a…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, College Libraries, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Eisenberg, Michael B.; Berkowitz, Robert E. – 1988
This resource book is intended as a companion to the book "Curriculum Initiative: An Agenda and Strategy for Library Media Programs," which provides practicing school library media specialists and students in professional degree-granting programs with both a conceptual framework and practical approaches to the curriculum-related…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers
Bopp, Richard E., Ed.; Smith, Linda C., Ed. – 2001
Like the first two editions, this third edition is designed primarily to provide the beginning student of library and information science with an overview both of the concepts and processes behind today's reference services and of the most important sources consulted in answering common types of reference questions. The first 12 chapters deal with…
Descriptors: Information Services, Information Sources, Information Systems, Libraries
City Univ. of New York, NY. Bernard Baruch Coll. – 1991
The purpose of the project described in this three-part report was to test the value of hypermedia for library instruction. The project included the development of a hypermedia program built around a marketing topic; implementation and testing of the program with one group of students assigned to use the new program; evaluation of the project by…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), College Libraries, College Students, Computer Software Development
Fox, Lynne M.; And Others – 1991
A joint program of instruction was created between the University of Northern Colorado's Michener Library and School of Nursing. This expanded bibliographic instruction program was based on a proposal that outlined the need for information literacy instruction in nursing education, enumerated the possible benefits of such instruction to students…
Descriptors: Assignments, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Integrated Library Instruction
Pennsylvania State Library, Harrisburg. – 1989
Although this guide was designed to support "Pennsylvania Online: A Curriculum Guide for School Library Media Centers" (1985), the State of Pennsylvania curriculum guide for online searching, many of its components are also suitable for use by school librarians when teaching the elements involved in searching for resources manually. Designed to…
Descriptors: Learning Resources Centers, Library Instruction, Library Skills, Online Searching
Huffman, Robert F. – 1987
These instructions are designed to help patrons of the University of Missouri-Columbia library perform searches on PSYCHLIT, a CD-ROM (compact disc, read only memory) version of the Psych Abstracts database, and a CD-ROM version of the ERIC database, both produced by SilverPlatter Information Services. Basic information is provided about the disk…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Autoinstructional Aids, Higher Education, Instructional Materials