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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
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. – 1980
Part of a series of competency-based test materials for grades six through ten, this test booklet for ninth graders contains multiple-choice questions designed to aid in the evaluation of the pupils' library skills. Accompanied by a separate booklet of illustrations which are to be used in conjunction with the questions, the test covers the…
Descriptors: Atlases, Criterion Referenced Tests, Dictionaries, Grade 9
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. – 1980
Part of a series of competency-based test materials for grades six through ten, this test booklet for tenth graders contains multiple-choice questions designed to aid in the evaluation of the pupils' library skills. Accompanied by a separate booklet of illustrations which are to be used in conjunction with the questions, the test covers the…
Descriptors: Atlases, Criterion Referenced Tests, Dictionaries, Grade 10
Nolan, Ernest – 1980
Designed for use by students who are beginning to do research for term papers, this self-instructional library workbook presents information on the circulating and reference collections of the Madonna College Library in Livonia, Michigan. The workbook covers: (1) use of the card catalog for finding books about a specific subject and for screening…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Card Catalogs, College Libraries, Higher Education
Madland, Denise; Ryun, Rita – 1982
Designed for use by freshmen in English classes at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, this workbook contains a series of exercises designed to teach students how to approach research in the library. Five exercises comprise the text, and the lessons are organized to reflect useful approaches to library search strategy. The main research tools…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, College Libraries, Higher Education
Chung, Myoung; And Others – 1980
Six point-of-use audiovisual programs were developed by librarians as part of a library instruction program in Alexander Library at Rutgers University to illustrate the basic skills needed in using the library's print collections in the social sciences and humanities. Topics for the 16mm filmstrip cartridges were (1) Tour of Alexander Library; (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Audiovisual Instruction, Autoinstructional Aids, Higher Education
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. – 1980
Part of a series of competency-based test materials for grades six through ten, this test booklet for seventh graders contains multiple-choice questions designed to aid in the evaluation of the pupils' library skills. Accompanied by a separate booklet of illustrations which are to be used in conjunction with the questions, the test covers the…
Descriptors: Atlases, Criterion Referenced Tests, Dictionaries, Elementary Education
Facinelli, Jaclyn – 1982
A study was conducted of the efficacy of two methods of teaching music bibliography to 80 undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Akron in Ohio. One group of subjects received only lectures in bibliographic instruction; the other group had the benefit of lectures and worksheet exercises, which involved location of publications and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Seeking, Intermode Differences
King, Christine; And Others – 1992
This workbook on library skills for psychological research covers: (1) how to look up books by title or author, including an introduction to STARS (the Stony Brook Automated Retrieval System); (2) how to find books by subject using STARS and how to consult the Library of Congress List of Subject Headings; (3) the kinds of informational questions…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Government Publications, Higher Education
Hall, Cathie – 1983
In support of the United States Naval Academy's program in international relations, library reference staff developed an instruction unit featuring appropriate research guides and a videotape produced at the Naval Academy Educational Resource Center. The videotape illustrates a sample search strategy and then highlights the use of four basic…
Descriptors: Card Catalogs, Foreign Policy, Higher Education, Information Seeking
Altan, Susan – 1987
In an effort to verify that the library research skills that comprise the library media instructional program at the Columbus (Ohio) School for Girls are those that college librarians would regard as essential, a questionnaire was mailed in February 1987 to the undergraduate libraries of 142 colleges and universities most often attended by…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Bound Students, Higher Education, Information Needs
Schwartz, Barbara A.; Burton, Susan – 1981
A result of close cooperation between librarians at the Undergraduate Library and the English faculty, the program described in this report involves the integration of library instruction with freshmen English courses at the University of Texas at Austin. The formulation of goals for this program, through which over 5,000 students each year are…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, College Libraries, English Instruction
Greenfield, Louise; And Others – 1985
This study provides a model for assessing the library instructional needs of students in a selected scientific discipline, developing a program to meet those needs, and evaluating the results. Library research study units, which were integrated into an undergraduate course in the wildlife division, were presented in four 1-hour class sessions.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Departments, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Detroit Public Schools, MI. Dept. of School Libraries. – 1982
In an effort to provide for a smooth transition from an "open schedule" library media center to scheduled library periods, a series of 13 instructional models were developed for use in Detroit's public schools. The models provide a framework for developing a plan of sequential library instruction which can be adapted to the teaching programs of…
Descriptors: Assignments, Card Catalogs, Career Planning, Dewey Decimal Classification
Smith, Michelle L. – 1998
A needs assessment that utilized questionnaires and an interview showed that fifth grade students at the practicum site were not able to use reference materials appropriately. Target groups for the practicum were the fifth grade students and teachers. Constructivist methods were used to increase students' knowledge of using reference materials and…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Comparative Analysis, Constructivism (Learning), Grade 5