The last of three library skills modules for college students, Unit III provides definitions of periodicals, indexes and abstracts, as well as discussion of how to select the appropriate index or abstract, how to interpret a citation, and how to locate bound journals, microfilms, and current issues of journals in the library. Copying and borrowing…

The exercises in this workbook are designed to be used with the pamphlets and audiotapes from Units II and III of the library skills modules for college students. Questions in these exercises are similar to those on the tests for the modules. Exercises 1 through 8 coordinate with Unit II: Card Catalog; exercises 9 through 11 relate to Unit III:…

This booklet is the fifth in a series of ten programed instruction units which was developed as a career related language arts program to teach library skills to junior high school students. The objectives of this unit are to demonstrate mastery of the use of the Readers' Guide and to reinforce skills in finding periodicals by performing hands-on…

This booklet is the sixth in a series of ten programed instruction units which was developed as a career related language arts program to teach library skills to junior high school students. The objective of this unit is to demonstrate knowledge of the history and format of periodicals by answering questions and performing practical exercises…

Written for an undergraduate course at the University of California at Berkeley, this handbook also serves as a general text on library use. Detailed instruction is given on the use of card catalogs, reference materials, periodicals, newspapers, microforms, government documents, and other library collections. Major general reference works are…

THis annotated bibliography is designed to help students beginning educational research at Pattee Library of Pennsylvania State University Libraries. Grouped in sections A through H in the body of the guide by the type of information they contain, items listed include: bibliographies, guides to theses and dissertations; indexes and abstracts;…