Describes some of the imaginative ways a school librarian can encourage children to become aware of the variety and richness of the materials in a school library. (HOD)

Ralph Waldo Emerson's criticism that libraries lack the profession of "professor of books" represents the central problem of bibliographic instruction: an inadequately formed theoretical or conceptual framework. A history of the ideas, notions, terms, and phrases about bibliographic instruction illustrates this. (MSE)

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)

The professional literature lacks detailed accounts of attempts to teach the structure and use of specialized literatures in universities. This article is an account of literature seminars offered, and discusses questions of level, attendance, presentation, integration with existing course-work, and alternative approaches. (7 references)…

Student nurses at Scott and White Memorial Hospital (Temple, Texas) were given a library orientation lecture, followed up by a project of compiling a bibliography on a topic illustrating different forms of library materials and using library tools. (JS)

A program is described that introduces medical students to library resources on the first day of clerkship orientation. University librarians provide bibliographies, a slide presentation on library resources and services, and a time for discussion of individual students' clerkship topics and relevant resources. Increased library use has resulted.…

Explains how having students write "found poems" by using the card catalog helps introduce the card catalog to students while also serving as an introduction to poetry. (JL)

Describes the specific steps of action relating to the creation of a comprehensive bibliographic unit at Rosemont College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Author/LLS)

Describes a program of language arts skills for students in grades five through seven, which focuses on word knowledge, comprehension, research and library skills, critical thinking, and oral and silent reading skills, while moving the students toward the independence to freely use these skills for their own purposes. (HTH)

Describes and evaluates a library skills instruction unit, "Integration of Instruction in Basic Writing and Library Usage," offered at Kendall College, Illinois to help students become familiar with the library, the card catalog, the "Reader's Guide," and correct bibliographiic formats; and use these skills in writing research…

Reviewed are 12 recent instructional kits, supplementary texts, and professional references for library and study skills instruction in the secondary grades. (SJL)

Discusses programed instruction as a technique for teaching the fundamentals of monographic searching on the OCLC database, the method used in developing the instructional text, the series of validation tests conducted, and some suggestions for future research. (Author/FM)

Test questions designed to encourage students to carefully use a variety of library materials for research papers are presented. (HTH)