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Covert-Vail, Lucinda, Ed.; Kennedy, Ann, Ed. – 1987
Designed to be used as part of the library education program of the J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University, this series includes the following research guides: (1) How to Cite References; (2) Annotated Bibliographies; (3) How to Use American Statistics Index; (4) How to Use Biological Abstracts; (5) How to Use Chemical…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Indexes, Library Guides, Library Instruction
Ware, Susan A. – 1986
Designed to acquaint Pennsylvania State University students at the Delaware County Campus with the facilities and resources of their library, this workbook on library skills is designed for use with English 15, and its mandatory completion is incorporated into the final course grade. It is organized into exercises dealing with types of materials…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Facilities, Library Instruction
Renford, Beverly L.; And Others – 1985
Designed to acquaint Pennsylvania State University students at the Delaware County Campus with the facilities and resources of their library, this workbook on library skills is used in conjunction with English 15, and its mandatory completion is incorporated in the final course grade. It is organized into exercises dealing with types of materials…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Facilities, Library Instruction
Hess, Mary Lou – 1978
Intended for librarians and teachers, this guide describes a library instruction program for teaching subject analysis to middle and high school students. The program is comprised of three units: subject analysis, classification scheme construction, and subject headings. Background material for the librarian, exercises for students, and answers to…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Classification, High School Students, Librarians
Hitchings, Donna, Ed.; Wilson, Thomas C., Ed. – 1988
This handbook is designed as an introduction to the process of library research in the field of education. To illustrate the process, a sample topic is developed from a broad concept through a well-developed topic for a research paper. Following an overview of a successful research strategy, the chapters are organized in the order of a typical…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Educational Research, Higher Education, Library Instruction
Snoddon, Ruth V.; And Others – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Descriptions of activities designed to enhance the learning of library and information skills focus on the location of materials (ready-to-use library skills games); finding materials in the card catalog; and Aesop's fables. Games and puzzles are provided. (CLB)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1987
Several activities, games, and puzzles designed to teach elementary school children how to use a thesaurus are described and copies of worksheets are provided. (CLB)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
Machalow, Robert – 1984
This document presents computer-based lessons used to teach basic library skills to college students at York College of the City University of New York. The information for library orientation has been entered on a disk which must be used in conjunction with a word processing program, the Applewriter IIe, and an Apple IIe microcomputer. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Library Instruction
Stebelman, Scott – 1980
The findings of this study indicate that self-paced library instruction is a viable alternative to more costly tutorial or computer assisted instruction for replacement of existing library orientation tours. The self-paced instruction packet presents three basic library skills: location of books using author, title, or subject catalogs; location…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Formative Evaluation, Higher Education, Library Instruction
Gittins, Gwen; Dusenbury, Carolyn – 1978
Designed to acquaint undergraduate students at the University of Utah with basic library resources and materials, the program of instruction presented can be used as a self-paced tool either in course related instruction or as an independent offering. A section containing floor plans of the University's Marriott Library illustrates the location of…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Instruction, Library Materials, Library Services
Singer, Carol A. – 1981
This users guide provides instruction for researchers using government documents in this depository collection. Generally applicable to any government document collection, the guide uses a worksheet format to acquaint the user with the SuDocs classification system, the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, the publications reference…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Depository Libraries, Government Publications, Information Seeking
Miller, Constance; And Others – 1979
A library skills workbook provides college biology students with an introduction to biological library resources. Divided into two sections, the first contains explanations of the various steps in the library research process. The second consists of exercises keyed to the explanatory chapters of the first section. (RAA)
Descriptors: Biology, College Libraries, College Students, Higher Education
Hitchings, Donna, Ed.; And Others – 1988
Designed to be used in an English course at the University of Houston, this library skills workbook includes lessons and multiple-choice exercises on the following topics: (1) a floor plan of the main university library; (2) catalog records; (3) catalog access points; (4) using the catalogs; (5) locating books; (6) encyclopedias; (7) dictionaries;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Instruction, Library Materials
Dew, Stephen H. – 1984
Successful completion of this self-paced library workbook is a course requirement of all second semester freshman English students at the University of Arkansas. The workbook contains 18 chapters. A brief introduction and instructions for using the workbook precede the library tour in Chapter 1, and the remaining 17 chapters discuss specific…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Facilities
Wright, Nancy Kirkpatrick – 1981
This learning module provides 11 lessons to acquaint English Composition I students at Yavapai College (YC) with the facilities and resources of the YC Library. After introductory material describing course requirements, providing instructions, and locating the campuses' libraries, Lesson I explains how to check out a book, put a book on hold, and…
Descriptors: College English, College Libraries, Community Colleges, Learning Modules