About a decade ago, a team of librarians and technologists at the University of Texas at Austin began development on a Web-based tutorial for undergraduate students. The tutorial used a range of technologies--HTML, Flash, javascript--to create four modules that emphasized information literacy concepts by using a mix of text, images, interactive…

This assessment of ten existing academic library instruction programs in the United States and Canada investigates administrative and staff support, instructional methods, and program impact as an aid to writing a guide to academic library instruction programs. A representative sample of ten library instruction programs was selected on the basis…

Reports on a survey of 232 social science and humanities faculty served by a Canadian university library. Findings confirm that faculty across all disciplines surveyed recognize the importance of bibliographic instruction (BI). Significant differences among departments in the types of BI preferred were revealed. A copy of the survey is appended.…