Hampshire College offers a vigorous bibliographic instruction program as a principal means for introducing undergraduate students to library use. Its major purpose is to teach library research strategies: how to proceed from an idea to a useful bibliography and acquire the needed materials. (Author/MSE)

Librarians must help students establish basic research skills, enabling students to find their way in the pertinent indexes, bibliographies, and electronic databases. A course at Hampshire College in bibliographical instruction is described. (MLW)