Recommends a series of six exercises designed to help students become familiar with a number of different resources in a school library. (TJ)

Incorporates a library component into an experimental section of the Environmental Science/Resource Planning course for nonscience majors in which students experience the scientific methods of researchers and learn some basic library skills. (ASK)

Reviews briefly the state of library instruction in today's academic libraries. Discusses three approaches to teaching library skills at the freshman level and details the author's experiences in working with a freshman composition course. (HTH)

Describes a library exercise for journalism students designed to engage them in using library reference books. (HOD)

Describes an assignment in which students locate, read, assess, and discuss critical articles about the works of literature they are studying. Points to many benefits of the assignment, including its positive effects on students' library research skills. (TJ)

Discusses the necessity of incorporating bibliographic instruction courses into the curriculum of teacher preparation programs and reviews the literature in this area. A unit which introduces elementary education majors to school library services as a part of a required children's literature course at Western State College of Colorado is…

Recommends assigning students to complete a library resources investigation to help them choose a writing assignment topic. (HTH)

Describes the library component of a summer session for entering minority freshmen. The exercise includes searching for and summarizing reviews of a reading assignment. A bibliography of book review sources is included. (HTH)

One way to enliven a research methods course in sociology is to require students to select journal articles over a 20- to 30-year period to show how research strategies have changed on a topic in which they have special interest. Teaching strategies are discussed. (Author/RM)

Emphasizing journal literature from the late 1800's to the mid-1930's, this chronologically-arranged compilation annotates articles about library instruction in colleges, universities, and schools of teacher education in the United States. It provides access to secondary materials for historians and librarians interested in academic library…

Describes an instructional model for teaching library skills which consists of a 30-minute lecture followed by a 20-minute exercise. Assumptions about learning and the educational process are discussed as well as goal-setting for the class and exercise. It is suggested that this format could be applied to other disciplines. (10 references) (MES)

Challenges the assumption that library skills are not a legitimate aspect of sociology courses. Argues that library skills are learned most effectively through an active process of participation and experience. Suggests and describes a library scavenger hunt as an effective learning exercise. (DB)

Results of a 1980 survey are tabulated to provide a view of the scope and diversity of materials and activities for library instruction at the 36 Kansas academic libraries which responded to the questionnaire. The questionnaire, included as an appendix, addressed staffing, including qualifications and evaluation; funding; methods used in library…

Diagrams a research or bibliographic loop that gives order and direction to the research process by enabling students to go beyond the usual unsystematic reliance on such limited and elementary resources as "The Reader's Guide." Includes a general explanation of the loop, illustrating its use in recent research. (HTH)

Describes the tutorial library instruction program at Berea College which is based entirely on tutorial procedures. (Author/RAA)