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Sarah LeMire; Zhihong Xu; Doug Hahn – College & Research Libraries, 2025
As higher education continues to focus its attention on first-generation college students, academic libraries are increasingly interested in designing outreach and instruction programs to support these students, especially during their first year of college. This study informs these efforts by implementing a standardized test to assess the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Freshmen, First Generation College Students, Information Literacy
Scoulas, Jung Mi; De Groote, Sandra L. – College & Research Libraries, 2022
The research aims to identify the primary reason for students' library use, to explore how they characterize academic success, and to further examine the impact of library usage on student learning outcomes beyond GPA, through a mixed-methods approach. By surveying and interviewing 27 undergraduate students during 2019-2020, the findings revealed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Users (Information), Grade Point Average, Student Attitudes

Jurgens, Jane Catherine; Villa, Dario J. – 1992
This paper begins by discussing the problems encountered by nontraditional university students who, for a variety of reasons, lack the skills necessary to complete assignments that require library research, and the role of the librarian in assisting these students. It then describes two approaches being used by librarians at Northeastern Illinois…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Higher Education, Library Instruction

Davidson, Jeanne R. – Research Strategies, 1994
Describes the concept behind the Technology Toolbox, a method being explored at Augustana College to build a foundation of basic information technology skills among students and faculty members. The materials and potential applications are examined and several issues related to this new form of instruction are discussed. (Author/KRN)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Libraries, Computer Centers, Computer Literacy

Lubans, John, Jr. – RQ, 1980
Discusses the role of college libraries in the teaching of library skills to undergraduates, and describes a program in which an English department cooperated with library staff in sharing the responsibility for instruction. (FM)
Descriptors: College Libraries, English Departments, Library Instruction, Library Role
Macke, Barbara – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2005
Sophistication and accessibility can be dangerous bedfellows, especially when it comes to information sources. One of the real challenges in undergraduate academic libraries can be connecting students in a meaningful way to the resources that will be most helpful and understandable for them. This article discusses how techniques borrowed from the…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Librarians, Academic Libraries, Library Services

Griffin, Mary L. – RSR Reference Services Review, 1988
Discusses the need for interaction between teaching and library faculty to design undergraduate assignments that demand effective library use and research skills. Examples of appropriate assignments are given. (4 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Curriculum Enrichment, Higher Education, Learning Strategies

Bodi, Sonia – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2002
Discussion of the difficulties undergraduates have with the research process focuses on the research process of scholars and suggests guiding questions for students to ask. Highlights include finding a topic and its focus; selecting a search method; the role of the librarian; and evaluating Web sites. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Library Instruction

Hopkins, Frances L. – College and Research Libraries, 1982
Links the origin, decline, and renaissance of bibliographic instruction to the increasing specialization and democratization of education and reviews the history of the academic library and the role of the academic librarian in American higher education. The value of concept-oriented bibliographic instruction is stressed. Included are 18…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, History, Librarians
Gee, E. Gordon; Breivik, Patricia Senn – 1987
Quality education in an information society must include skills related to the accessing and evaluating of pertinent information for problem solving. Moving beyond the practice of using reserve material, lectures, and textbooks predominant in most college teaching today would be a step towards producing independent learners more likely to use the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Curriculum, College Faculty, Educational Cooperation

Blandy, Susan Griswold; Libutti, Patricia O'Brien – Library Trends, 1995
Discusses the role of the academic library in training undergraduate students in research methods. Highlights include changes resulting from the electronic dissemination of information; the tradition of apprenticeship, journeymen, and master; information and knowledge; electronic scholarship; layers of learning in research in an electronic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Assignments, Electronic Libraries, Evaluation Methods
Owens, Major R. – 1987
As education for leadership becomes increasingly important, the role of the academic library should assume new dimensions, and the library should become a major vehicle for leadership education. An examination of the library-related recommendations in the report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, "College--the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Citizenship Education, Higher Education

Leckie, Gloria J.; Fullerton, Anne – College & Research Libraries, 1999
Discusses results of a survey and interviews of science and engineering faculty at two Canadian universities regarding their perceptions of students' information-literacy skills and their own pedagogical practices. Faculty awareness of, and support for, bibliographic instruction methods and the perceived role of science and engineering librarians…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Faculty, Engineering, Foreign Countries
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

O'Brien, Thomas V.; Warmkessel, Marjorie M. – Research Strategies, 1994
Describes an assignment for an education course in which students assume the role of prominent educational theorists. A librarian introduces students to a variety of library resources in the field of education, which they use to find background information on their selected theorist, prepare a formal in-character speech, and participate in an…
Descriptors: Activity Units, College Libraries, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Education Courses
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