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Palmer, Catherine – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
In this article, I imagine a library that prioritizes teaching users how to find, evaluate, and use information over the traditional library public service activities of collection development, access to materials, and reference services. If I ran the library, all services would support end-user education. (Contains 1 graph and 1 note.)
Descriptors: Libraries, Reference Services, Library Services, Library Instruction
Huwe, Terence K. – Computers in Libraries, 2009
"Embracing the chaos" is an ongoing challenge for librarians. Embracing the chaos means librarians must have a plan for responding to the flood of new products, widgets, web tools, and gizmos that students use daily. In this article, the author argues that library instruction and access services have been grappling with that chaos with…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Library Services, Librarians, Library Instruction
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Vincent, C. Paul – Reference Librarian, 1984
This essay arguing for retention of sophisticated reference-desk service as separate from library instruction notes brief history of relationship and two fundamental reasons for separation: a "one-shot" lecture could not cover every tool useful for research needs of each individual student; and not all patrons are experiencing library instruction.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Instruction, Library Services
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Budd, John – Reference Librarian, 1984
The relation between library instruction and the reference function is explored, noting characteristics and aims of both functions, terminology (bibliographic instruction and library instruction), user attitudes toward library use, correlation of the two services, and purposes of both bibliographic instruction and the reference process. Sixteen…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Library Instruction, Library Role, Library Services
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Lawrence, Gail Herndon – Library Trends, 1980
Urges librarians involved in library user instruction to meet the challenges preented by the growing role of computers in bibliographic systems. (FM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Librarians, Library Instruction, Online Systems
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Curran, Charles – Reference Librarian, 1989
Discusses several topics related to teaching reference work: (1) a basis for teaching reference; (2) teaching theory; (3) practicing skills; (4) preparing students for the employment marketplace; (5) developing interpersonal skills; (6) bibliographic instruction; and (7) the library environment. (five references) (MES)
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Higher Education, Library Education, Library Instruction
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Connolly, Bruce; LaGuardia, Cheryl M. – Online Review, 1986
Proposes three methods to be used by database searchers in structuring online search sessions with the goal of minimizing the negative effects on interlibrary loan operations. Forms management, management of printed search results, and the instruction of patrons are discussed. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Guidelines, Interlibrary Loans, Library Administration, Library Instruction
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Lester, Ray – Reference Librarian, 1984
Discusses whether librarians should aim to give "answers" (attempt to answer information need) or "clues" (instruct user in use of information sources) when responding to users' questions. Peripheral factors concerning questions (when, how, where, why, what), cost and benefits, and approaches associated with academic library…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Information Needs, Information Seeking, Library Instruction
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Pastine, Maureen – Reference Librarian, 1984
Focuses on advantages and disadvantages of centralizing the administration of a bibliographic instruction program in the academic library reference department, noting objectives in administration of such a program; concerns to be addressed prior to deciding who, within organizational structure, administers program; and administration through…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Administration, Library Instruction
Budd, John – Library Journal, 1982
Discussion of the teaching role of the academic librarian focuses primarily on reference librarianship. The interaction between patron and librarian and the necessity for the librarian to teach are noted. Eighteen references are provided. (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Librarians, Library Instruction
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Pausch, Lois M.; Penka, Carol B. – Reference Librarian, 1984
Traces the development of cooperation between reference librarians and catalogers, highlighting cooperative goals, role of the library catalog in meeting informational requirements of patrons, involvement of catalog librarians in library instruction, and patterns of library organization. Future trends are discussed. Twenty sources are given. (EJS)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Cooperation, Library Catalogs, Library Instruction
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McCarthy, Constance – RQ, 1982
Discusses the evaluation of library instruction through observations of student and faculty at the reference desk of university libraries. Bad effects (guilt, overconfidence, indignation) and good effects (patience, adventurousness, trust) of library instruction are noted, and characteristics of more successful academic library instruction are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Information Seeking
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Bessler, Joanne; And Others – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1990
The lead article in this symposium argues that academic librarians have become too enthralled with their perception of themselves as teachers and urges them to shift their emphasis from instruction to services. Six authors respond to this view in short opinion pieces. (11 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Instruction, Library Role
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Rice, James – Reference Librarian, 1984
Addresses the two-fold question concerning imposition of instruction on a library user when he/she only wants answer to information need--whether attempted instruction is infringement on the rights of the user, and whether attempted instruction detracts from the librarian's effectiveness in fulfilling information need. Twenty references are…
Descriptors: Individual Instruction, Information Needs, Instructional Design, Interpersonal Communication
Jarvis, William E. – Database, 1985
Discusses the integration of subject pathfinders into online public access catalogs (OPAC) through following features: within the OPAC, offline user guide manuals, remotely printed upon user request, or online as saved searches displayed in help screen format. Excerpts of a pathfinder display for biotechnology are presented. Four sources are…
Descriptors: Display Systems, Information Retrieval, Library Catalogs, Library Guides
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