Designed to acquaint students with the facilities and resources of the North Dakota State University (NDSU) Library, this library manual is divided into 24 chapters: (1) The Main Library; (2) Reference Room; (3) Periodical Indexes; (4) Infotrac Academic Index; (5) Abstracts and Two-Step Indexes; (6) Locating Periodicals; (7) Newspaper Indexes and…

There are three library "treasure hunts" in "My Very Own Treasure Hunt," written to follow "A Treasure Hunt in My Library," a story book and videotape. In this 12-page booklet of activities, students will learn how to use the typical library computer, the Dewey Decimal Classification System and the ins and outs of…

This workbook for a library and information skills course at the University of South Florida (USF), Tampa campus, contains the following sections: (1) syllabus; (2) tentative course outline; (3) statement of the course goal, general objectives, and objectives related to LC (Library of Congress) classification and the online catalog, dictionaries…

Prepared by the reference faculty of the Ramsey Library at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, this guide is the primary text for Bibliography 101, a one-hour course designed to help undergraduate students acquire basic understandings of the range of information resources available, how information is organized, and how it can be…

Intended to familiarize students with the Melville Library at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and provide guidelines for conducting research in American politics, this workbook is divided into 10 chapters: (1) The Author-Title Catalog; (2) How To Find Books on Your Topic Using the Subject Catalog; (3) General Periodical Literature;…

Intended to provide a basic overview of the facilities and resources of the library on the Allentown Campus of Pennsylvania State University, this student workbook is designed to familiarize students with what is available to them in the library; to introduce them to skills likely to be used in varying degrees throughout life, regardless of what…

This self-instructional workbook provides information and exercises on library skills for undergraduate students at Pittsburg State University in Kansas. Lesson units cover: (1) a self-guided walking tour of the library; (2) checkout policies; (3) the Dewey Decimal classification system and book arrangement; (4) Library of Congress subject…

This videotape provides an overview of the materials and services available in a typical library. Designed to interest elementary and middle school children in exploring the library, the video features a young host who tells children about the Dewey Decimal system and goes behind the scenes to see how a library works. The library does not only…

The contents of this document include the course syllabus, a student information sheet, college library floor plans, and the units of instruction for Library Research Skills (LIB 101), a course taught at the State University College at Plattsburgh, New York. The course syllabus lists subjects to be covered and the corresponding time frame for…

The materials included in this presentations consist of information about a program to teach library research skills to Japanese university students of English as a Second Language (ESL) studying in the United States and student worksheets for use in the program. The program, instituted at Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute (Washington), is designed…