Recommends a program of effective course-related library instruction in such areas as specialized encyclopedias, explaining research, locating sources, and use of indexes for students in secondary schools. (CMV)

The conditions and the rhetoric have changed; but in the age of the "instant librarian," the future still depends on the school media specialist's ability to focus on the user as an individual and provide an environment that promotes learning. (Author)

Summarizes responses of three university librarians to four questions concerning the preparation of college-bound students regarding library use; the skills students need; what approach they take to help students learn such skills; and the things that library media specialists and teachers can do to prepare college-bound students to use university…

This transcript contains the text of a speech and five panel presentations on the problems of people with hearing impairments and the provision of academic library instruction to deaf students. Herbert W. Larson describes: methods for effectively communicating with the deaf; the use of signing, lip reading, and interpreters; colleges for the deaf;…

Discusses the concept of multidisciplinary study and ways that the media specialist can coordinate this approach. A brief history of library instruction is provided, and the New York State Regents Action Plan, an example of state involvement in ensuring the level of competence in library skills, is described. (23 references) (MES)

Examination of the confrontation between patrons and technology in the library focuses on two questions evident when addressing the instruction librarian's role in humanizing technology: whether the library profession can afford to humanize interaction between client and technology, and how instruction librarians can humanize the confrontation.…

Refutes several popular but ill-founded arguments against user education for public library patrons to suggest that the only real issue is the extent of library involvement. This adaptation from a soon-to-be-published book on library user education includes seven references. (RAA)

Reviews recent attempts to survey and coordinate United Kingdom library and information resources to obtain more overseas contracts for the supply of library and information skills and services. A pilot group targeting European opportunities is described, and future directions are discussed. (Contains five references.) (LRW)

Discusses the evolution of library skills from information location skills to information processing skills and addresses the assessment of library information skills on three standardized achievement tests for high school students: the Iowa Tests of Educational Development, the Tests of Achievement and Proficiency, and the Comprehensive Tests of…

This paper, presented at the Indiana Library Association Meeting, discusses critical thinking in general terms and then briefly discusses why it is important to include critical thinking skills in bibliographic instruction sessions at the higher education level. A discussion of the instructional design of bibliographic instruction in relation to…

Examines the probability and impact of an increase in end-user searching of online databases on librarians and library education. The problems of end-user searching are discussed, new developments in online access are reviewed, and recommendations for the education of the end-user are made. Included are 25 references. (JL)

Students' lack of bibliographic expertise is due to the failure of academic librarians and teachers to communicate with each other. Teachers need to inform librarians about their assignments and expectations for students; librarians need to tell teachers about the inadequacy of students' work in the library and possibilities for improvement.…

Discussion of the development of educational standards and the impact on school library media programs focuses on what constitutes information skills, or information literacy. Documents for 27 states are listed that outline the information skills actually taught in the various states. (LRW)

This examination of the emerging theoretical base of library instruction in schools combines learning theory with research on information-seeking behavior and a broader view of library and information skills. Thirty-five references are listed. (MES)

Discusses management of two interdependent domains of inner behavior in the micro-information environment: voluntary or affective skills and intellectual or cognitive skills. Examples are given under six principles for boosting motivational level of user of information services: affective knowing, social facilitation, affective Zeigarnik effect,…