As part of a program to prepare public librarians to serve the urban disadvantaged, the faculty at Wayne State University experimented with simulation as an instructional technique. They developed and tested a library game, LIB SIM, aimed at introducing students to the relationships between main library and various branches in a large urban public…

In an attempt to determine whether information and skills necessary to use a university library could be taught in high schools by a method of branching pictorial programing, a series of experiments were conducted with the assistance of high school seniors and college freshmen, juniors and seniors. In Experiment 1, Carbondale High School Students…