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Bell, Colleen; Benedicto, Juanita – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1998
A task force developed to examine solutions to declining student enrollments and student retention problems, recommended that the University of Oregon Library System develop library courses that address discipline-specific information needs in several library intensive courses, especially in journalism, management, psychology, and women's studies.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Enrollment, Higher Education
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Shirato, Linda – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1999
Reviews the original Conference on Library Orientation, later called the LOEX (Library Orientation and Exchange) Conference, and discusses the history of academic library instruction as influenced by those conferences. Highlights include change and continuity, and bibliographic instruction versus library orientation. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Conferences, Higher Education
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Farber, Evan – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1999
Surveys the past 25-30 years in library instruction, particularly cooperation and collaboration between librarians and faculty. Discusses Louis Shore's Library College Movement which envisioned all courses being taught in the library by subject matter experts; the Monteith College experiment; course-related instruction; experiences at Earlham…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
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Isbell, Dennis; Kammerlocher, Lisa – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1998
Summarizes Carol Kuhlthau's research on the information search process. Discusses how Kuhlthau's model of students' information search process (ISP) has been integrated into a course at Arizona State University and is being used experimentally as a training tool in the library's reference services. Selected student responses to research process…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Seeking, Library Instruction
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Rader, Hannelore B. – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1999
Traces 30 years of academic library instruction innovation, including the creation of the first conference on Library Orientation at Eastern Michigan University in 1971 and the LOEX (Library Orientation Exchange) Clearinghouse. Particular attention is paid to information literacy project activities in the national and international environments.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Conferences, Higher Education, Information Literacy
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Samson, Sue – RSR: Reference Services Review, 2000
Describes the development of a curriculum-integrated and tiered instruction program over the course of five years at the University of Montana as well as the implementation of a Web-based assessment tool as a mechanism for establishing levels of information literacy. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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MacDonald, Mary C.; Rathemacher, Andree J.; Burkhardt, Joanna M. – RSR: Reference Services Review, 2000
Discusses the plan for building an incremental, multi-year information literacy program at the University of Rhode Island. Reviews the current library instruction program and reasons for and methods of change. Discusses the development of credit courses in information literacy, creation of information literacy modules for specific disciplines, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Higher Education, Information Literacy
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Jesudason, Melba – RSR: Reference Services Review, 2000
Explains why student-athletes on college and university campuses are chosen as a special group for library instruction outreach programs. Gives a brief history of library instruction to athletes' programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, emphasizing the collaboration between the academic advisors of the athletes and the instruction…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Athletes, Athletics, Electronic Mail
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Dennis, Stefanie; Broughton, Kelly – RSR: Reference Services Review, 2000
The Bowling Green State University Web tutorial, FALCON, models a standard library instructional session on use of the library's Web-based catalog. The tutorial's self-containment, achieved with a complex system of files and without a live catalog connection, enables users to learn how to search the catalog at a pace, time and place of their…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer System Design, Higher Education, Information Seeking
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Greenwood, Tina Evans; Frisbie, Jeffrey – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1998
Describes a one-credit, theme-based library instruction course for freshmen and sophomores at Fort Lewis College (Durango, Colorado). Discusses benefits of theme-based instruction; assigned work; skills students should acquire during the course; course assessment and development; and future changes in the course. (AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Course Content, Higher Education, Information Literacy
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Nozero, Victoria A.; Whitten, Penelope A.; Heaton, Shelley; Tuma, Kay; Master, Nancy; Armstrong, Alison – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1998
Focuses on one area that the library staff cannot control: demographics. Discusses the University of Nevada, Las Vegas's (UNLV's) user population, how it has affected the development of a flexible library instruction program at UNLV, and how the online tutorial at another large urban university relates to its user population. (AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Demography, Higher Education, Instructional Design
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Dupuis, Elizabeth A. – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1999
Discusses the adaptation of academic library instructional programs in response to new technologies, most notably the Internet. Topics include a brief history of library instruction; the Internet age; faculty needs; and changes in the student population and the need to focus on the users. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Faculty Development, Higher Education
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Colborn, Nancy Wootton; Cordell, Rosanne M. – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1998
Discusses the distinction between student evaluation and program assessment; the development of assessment methods for library instruction; and the various steps taken in the writing, testing, revising, and use of an assessment instrument for the Schurz Library instruction program at Indiana University South Bend. Library instruction guidelines,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Feedback, Higher Education
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Kirk, Thomas G., Jr. – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1999
Discusses the history and development of the library instruction movement and of the Association of Research Libraries' Instruction section, especially in relation to course-related instruction at Earlham College. Considers search strategies; teamwork between librarians and faculty; the effects of active learning; use of the World Wide Web; and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Active Learning, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Higher Education
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Nims, Julia K. – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1999
Examines the role of marketing, promotional activities, and public relations in library instructional services and discusses some reactions to using these techniques to improve instruction programs. Considers information technology, the explosion of available information, and changes in users, and emphasizes the need to respond to user needs.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Information Technology
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