Proposes that academic libraries become actively and directly involved in providing teaching, research, and community services. The development and implementation of such services is discussed. (FM)

Traces the development of library user instruction in American college libraries, reviewing the major issues, experiments, and conflicts in the field since the 1870's. (FM)

Examines the nature of faculty culture and how certain aspects of it impede bibliographic instruction efforts. It is suggested that continued initiatives by librarians to understand and to reach out to faculty are needed to increase widescale acceptance by faculty of bibliographic instruction. (Contains 126 references.) (Author/LRW)

Discusses the origins of theoretical structure in academic librarianship through a review of the literature. (MBR)

Applies the concept of competency-based education to library user instruction, and describes a number of competency-based programs currently in operation at academic libraries. (FM)

Discussion of the role of academic libraries focuses on a study that proposed and tested a model to explore the use of academic libraries. Investigated service quality factors, resources, and user characteristics, and concludes that use is influenced most by a user's perceived familiarity with the library and its resources. (Author/LRW)

Describes four library retreats held by the Bowling Green State University library staff from 1995 to 1998. The retreats reflect changes in library work and management theory that have occurred. The importance of technology to library work is recognized, but there is also a growing realization of the importance of developing a flexible staff…

Discussion of the reassessment of undergraduate education focuses on the element of critical thinking. Topics include language and reasoning, the power of stories and narrative structure, critical thinking and bibliographic instruction, enrichment reading and academic libraries, reasoning in an image and electronic culture, and the role of the…

Discusses academic library instruction and librarians' collaboration with faculty to promote information literacy. Highlights include the education reform movement; strategic alliances; partnerships within a multicampus higher education system to promote information literacy; and assessment of the library's role as a key component of…

Discussion of fund-raising in academic libraries addresses issues of major gifts, capital campaigns, organization, staffing, constituency, and the role of the library development program within the academic community. Highlights include library administrator roles, goals, centralized versus decentralized development, and creating a major-gifts…

Presents a trend analysis, using the college library as a model, which maps internal and external financial contacts to show the complexity of library financial dealings. Topics discussed include Total Quality Management; the library's financial role in the parent organization and in worldwide finances; and the profession's response to change.…

Discusses ways in which developments in interactive electronic technologies present public sector institutions, particularly academic libraries, with set of choices and dilemmas that will be as crucial in results as difficult in resolution. Inevitability of interactive electronics, interactive television, interactive technologies in library, and…

Discusses the integration of information and technological skills into the undergraduate curriculum. Topics include information literacy; the role of the academic library in higher education reform; information literacy criteria for undergraduates; and examples of successful curriculum integration programs at Earlham College, the University of…

Discusses both internal and external variables that will influence and determine the future of the role and mission of community college learning resources centers (LRCs), and notes applications of computer technology to library systems. Thirty-one references are listed. (EJS)

Examines the economic behavior of academic research libraries, arguing that academic research libraries seek to maximize universities' utility by expanding library collections. Findings are consistent with those from a previous study using a different ranking system and sample data and reconfirm that library collections contribute significantly to…