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Goldman, Crystal; Turnbow, Dominique; Roth, Amanda; Friedman, Lia; Heskett, Karen – Communications in Information Literacy, 2016
This article focuses on the development of an engaging library orientation module for UC San Diego First Year Experience (FYE) courses. The library module included a brief in-class presentation about research concepts and library services, an online interactive library scavenger hunt given as an in-class activity, and a homework assignment where…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Libraries, Orientation, Introductory Courses
Pressley, Lauren; Gilbertson, Kevin – Computers in Libraries, 2011
People see challenges to libraries in funding, in ebooks, and in the internet. However, in this information-rich age, librarians' roles are even more important. They are information experts. They know how to think about the changing information environment, and they know the impact--both positive and negative--it can have on people whose jobs…
Descriptors: Expertise, Libraries, Information Literacy, Internet
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Hales, Karen; Ward, Randall; Brown, Annalaura – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2009
As we look back over the last six months, we are surprised at what we have accomplished with a coordinated effort and a team attitude. The librarians who "check their egos at the door" (Sanders 2008) will find that their joint accomplishments exceed the sum of their individual efforts. The willingness to accept others' ideas (both internal and…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, College Libraries, Cooperation, Outreach Programs
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Weintraub, Tamara – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2008
A community college librarian from Southern California describes her semester-length sabbatical on the Pacific island territory of New Caledonia, and how the professional, cultural, and language experiences changed her outlook about her job back home. Working at a local library on several projects organizing and processing special collections of…
Descriptors: Sabbatical Leaves, Librarians, Community Colleges, Phenomenology
Brown, Stephanie Willen; Hammond, Chelsea C. – Library Journal, 2008
This article reports that the Scopus Student Ambassador (SAm) program, funded by Elsevier, permitted the University of Connecticut (UConn) Libraries to hire graduate students to teach citation searching, using both Scopus and Web of Science, to other graduate students. The training does not cost the libraries anything, and it is free for graduate…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, College Libraries, Social Work, Citations (References)
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Patterson, Thomas H. – RQ, 1980
Describes the library skills workshops, expressly designed for faculty secretaries, executive secretaries, administrative assistants, and clerk-typists, that have been successfully experimented with by the University of Maine at Orono Libraries. (Author)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Instruction, Library Skills, Nonprofessional Personnel
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Tiefel, Virginia – 1979
This program of library instruction, which was designed by undergraduate librarians to introduce basic library skills to incoming undergraduates, presents the services and resources of the two undergraduate libraries, facilitates the development of positive attitudes towards the library, and promotes recognition of libraries as an information…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Instruction
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Lubans, John, Jr. – RQ, 1980
Discusses the role of college libraries in the teaching of library skills to undergraduates, and describes a program in which an English department cooperated with library staff in sharing the responsibility for instruction. (FM)
Descriptors: College Libraries, English Departments, Library Instruction, Library Role
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Cammack, Floyd M. – Community and Junior College Journal, 1979
Describes library use instruction at Leeward Community College (Hawaii) which is coordinated with freshman English courses and which requires about ten hours of hands-on learning in the library. The program includes a library tour, and covers use of the card catalog, Library of Congress Subject Headings, and periodical and newspaper indexes. (MB)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Library Instruction, Library Skills
Arthur, Gwen; And Others – 1989
The Orientation and Training Task Force of the Temple University Library was charged by the Director of the Central Library System (CLS) in October 1987 to develop plans for a three-level program, including an orientation component for all CLS staff, a second component for staff who regularly work at any public service point, and a third component…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Instruction, Library Services
Miller, Stuart Wayne – 1978
Limited to programs aimed at undergraduate students in American college libraries, this paper describes the development of the concept of library skills instruction and discusses current instructional programs in 13 colleges: Brown, Washington and Lee, Manhattanville, Occidental, Dillard, Dickinson, Oberlin, State University College at…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Instruction, Library Services, Library Skills
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Ballam, Susan H. – Catholic Library World, 1981
Describes the specific steps of action relating to the creation of a comprehensive bibliographic unit at Rosemont College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Author/LLS)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Libraries, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
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Cocking, Terry S.; Schafer, Susan A. – Journal of Reading, 1994
Describes the Library Scavenger Hunt program at Baylor University (part of the reading and study skills program) which emphasizes learning what sources are available in a college library, where they are located, and how to use them. (SR)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Instruction, Library Materials
Skinner, Jane, Comp.; Violette, Judith, Comp. – 1980
A survey of 40 reporting academic libraries in Indiana developed this directory of library user instruction programs which provides an index profile of library resources and types of programs within the state. Entries are alphabetical in outline form and provide a library contact person, capsule information about the library instruction program,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Instruction
Maginnity, Gerald F. – 1976
In response to a survey which showed library users to be deficient in research skills, the Technological Institute of Monterrey, Mexico, developed a programed course in library skills using the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). The course structure featured mastery learning, self-pacing, student tutors, and emphasis on written materials.…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Independent Study
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