Armed with this guide's strategies and concrete examples, subject librarians, data services librarians, and scholarly communication librarians will be inspired to roll up their sleeves and get involved with teaching research data management competencies to students and faculty. The usefulness of research data management skills bridges numerous…

More librarians are finding ways to integrate library instruction into existing courses in a manner that makes library resources and the methodology for finding them an essential and basic component of the courses. Course-integrated instruction requires close cooperation between the librarian and the instructor and subject expertise on the part of…

This manual provides a series of forms and instruments and outlines the procedures used by St. Louis Community College in its annual evaluation of the performance of instructional resources faculty. First, general information is provided in lists of the performance indicators and other criteria upon which the assessments of teachers, counselors,…

Reviews several approaches to college faculty library orientation process based on needs of faculty involved and availability of library staff. Highlights include the required presence of faculty at the student orientation class; presentations at faculty meetings; and the faculty orientation class (level of instruction, instructional materials).…

This library instruction statement is designed to help the Northern Illinois University (NIU) Libraries meet the information needs of the students, faculty, and community. Objectives designed to reflect the general goals of the NIU library instruction program include increasing university and community awareness of the library as an educational,…

Describes how automation has transformed the library and how super-catalogs have affected the process of doing research. Explains how faculty and librarians can work together to help students to use the available databases effectively, by teaching them Boolean logic, standard record formats, filing rules, etc. (DMM)

The Bibliographic Instruction Committee of the Wichita State (Kansas) University Libraries recommended changes to improve the current bibliographic instruction program for lower division undergraduates. The shortcomings of the current program, one class period in a required English course, were analyzed; and suggestions were made to improve the…