Twenty-one scholarly papers and fourteen abstracts comprise the content of the ninth annual "Brick and Click Libraries Symposium," held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The peer-reviewed proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future…

This paper explores the effective implementation of process-based models of library instruction through analysis of a Canadian process model, Alberta's Focus on Research model. The following stages and related skills of the Focus on Research model are summarized: (1) planning (establish topic, identify information sources, identify audience and…

Offers 10 suggestions for high school teachers who want to take their high school students to a college or university library. (SR)

Discussion of how to teach college students the research process focuses on the importance of teaching the rhetorical dimensions of research and suggests several relevant approaches that librarians who teach bibliographic instruction can use when explaining access tools and research strategies. (Contains 18 references.) (LRW)

Presents a story and song that can be used to teach Big6 research skills to elementary students that is based on the book "Lizard's Song", by George Shannon. (LRW)

Discusses the value of booktalks in getting high school students excited about reading and books, by having the library media staff go into the classroom with appropriate books for an assignment and discuss them. The relation of booktalks to Big6 skills instruction is explained. (LRW)

This article presents a case study of the collaboration between the Business Career Services Office (BCSO) and the Business and Economics Library (BEL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The collaboration with BCSO helped BEL to become a strategic partner to both the College of Business and to graduate Business students. A survey…

This collection of materials for a 2-day workshop on collaborative teaching, cooperative learning, critical thinking, and critical assessment of resources includes an agenda for each day; workshop goals; guidelines for preparing an annotation; a letter to participants that accompanied four articles for them to read before the workshop; information…

This module is designed as a self-paced package to teach persons in educational psychology to conduct literature searches. The module could be easily adapted for use in other academic areas. The systematic method of approaching library research is divided into eight specific research skills: (1) writing an outline, (2) writing notecards, (3)…

Provides an example of a course integrated library instruction assignment in biographical research for undergraduate journalism students. The assignment is shown to accomplish three goals: development of library skills, knowledge of important living journalists, and a review of interviewing techniques. (EM)

Describes a two-year plan for a library instruction program for teaching research skills to junior high school students. An annotated bibliography is presented that includes 14 books and 15 journal articles on instruction in library use, and a pre- and posttest for students is provided. (LRW)

Treasures await students and researchers on the shelves of libraries and archives across the country, but unfortunately they often remain unknown to the "modern" researcher who limits his/her research to using the Internet. The process of physically going to the library stacks and browsing the shelves in a subject area is on the decline…

This workbook contains 10 chapters describing the various phases of planning and conducting library research: (1) The Libraries at NCSU (North Carolina State University); (2) The Research Paper; (3) Understanding Call Numbers; (4) Locating Background Information Using Encyclopedias; (5) Locating Information in Books (including sections on using…

Designed to be used in an English course at the University of Houston, this library skills workbook includes lessons and multiple-choice exercises on the following topics: (1) a floor plan of the main university library; (2) catalog records; (3) catalog access points; (4) using the catalogs; (5) locating books; (6) encyclopedias; (7) dictionaries;…

As community college learning resource centers deal more with student instruction, librarians are gaining credence as true educators. In an effort to reinforce library usage and understand teaching faculty constraints, some librarians--many of them teaching "drop-outs"--have returned to the classroom. This paper describes the experiences of one…