Maximizing the One-Shot: Connecting Library Instruction with the Curriculum

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BEGGARS &; THIEVES: LIVES OF URBAN STREET CRIMINALS. Mark S. Fleisher. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xiv + 332 pp. Glossary, extensive bibliography, index. ISBN: 0-299-14774-6 (paper), $16.95. Reviewed by Karen Hovde.     

Enhancing Library Instruction to Undergraduates: Incorporating Online Tutorials into the Curriculum

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Librarians can replace or supplement traditional in-class instruction with course-specific online tutorials. The literature demonstrates how tutorials customized for specific courses are more beneficial than tutorials on basic research skills. Many authors discuss creating online tutorials but do not design one devoted to a specific course. With increasing demand for instruction services, online tutorials can ease staffing concerns prevalent at many libraries and otherwise enhance the quality of instruction and its application to varied learning styles. Using the Blackboard course management system, the authors created an online tutorial tailored to the required World Civilizations course at the University at Buffalo. The tutorial incorporated elements of successful online tutorials described in the literature: clear terminology, a quiz for self-assessment, opportunities for active learning, and individual e-mail feedback between students and librarians, and applied them to a specific course. The authors discuss student and librarian reaction to the tutorial and make recommendations for how the tutorial can be improved and implemented in everyday instruction services.     

Library Instruction:

Principles of learning and instructional theories are discussed and related to the challenges and problems of instruction in library user education. A suggested model of library instruction is outlined along with the strong recommendation that librarians be aggressively active in promoting information literacy before library instruction begins. Being knowledgeable and keeping abreast of new theories and principles of learning and acting upon these principles will improve instruction. Librarians must realize that information literacy is a "process" and cannot be accomplished in one lecture.     

Library Space Assessment: User Learning Behaviors in the Library

As an essential department at a higher education institution and an informal learning space, little is known about how academic libraries contribute to student learning on campus. The Olin Library sought to learn the role of library space in our users' learning. We surveyed users about their learning behaviors in a specific space prior to a scheduled renovation and then in the same space after. We wanted to determine how the renovation changed users' perceptions of their learning behaviors in that space.     

协同浏览技术在图书馆用户教育中的应用研究

对用户教育的演变以及协同浏览的结构和实现方式进行了介绍,对AskAway实时参考咨询系统的协同浏览功能进行了个案研究,指出了其优于传统图书馆用户教育之处,并总结了影响协同浏览的主要因素.     

Bibliographic Instruction in the Academic Library

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Evaluating Library Instruction in Academic Libraries:

This study reviews the literature on the evaluation of bibliographic instruction in academic libraries from 1980 to 1993. Four main issues are discussed: (1) the reasons why librarians are evaluating, (2) to what degree they are evaluating, (3) what specific aspects they are evaluating, and (4) which methodologies are being used. Results indicate that, despite a growing interest in the evaluation of bibliographic instruction, the same pattern of limited systematic evaluation identified in 1980 continues to exist. Barriers to the successful implementation of evaluation, as well as possible directions for the future, are also presented.     

Library Instruction in the Digital Age

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Updating her 2003 article in Reference Services Review (“The Future of Reference: Get Real!” Reference Services Review 3(1), 2003, 39–42, DOI: 10.1108/00907320310460898), the author emphasizes the need to get a good sense of what one's users’ priorities are, concentrating efforts on successful tools researchers will actually use; responding to changes that have taken place in research and scholarship; devising instruction for use in actual environments, spaces, and timeframes; focusing on local user needs; and working to influence user-centered design of library online systems.

This article originally published in Journal of Library Administration, Vol. 51, Issue 3, pages 301–308, 2011. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2011.556948.     

The User and the Library

A library's success depends in large part on communication it shares with its users. Formal theory of communication information can be useful in examining the process, which is central to library use. Communication models are presented which display graphically elements of the process. The places of the library and the librarian in the models are discussed. Also presented are the concept of information (particularly as it relates to libraries)and data on information output. The key to all discussion is the library-user exchange and the importance of effective communication to public service in libraries.     

Library User Behavior

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Online Library Instruction

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At the School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, librarians and clinical faculty are working collaboratively to produce Web-based learning modules.

The collaboration resulted in four Web-based learning objects, including a virtual tour of the library Web site and three assignment-centered tutorials. Modules are short (15 minutes), focused on specific learning objectives and easily accessible on- and off-campus. They are embedded in an online course environment and free librarians to provide more customized instruction to classes upon request.

This poster presentation will demonstrate sections of the four modules, detail the development process, and explain how modules currently support School of Nursing curriculum andoutline implications for future development.     

Library Use Instruction in the Small and Medium Public Library

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Library Instruction in Medical Libraries

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Library Instruction in Public Libraries

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Instruction for Genealogists in the Public Library

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Tools of Academic Library Assessment: the User Survey

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Academic libraries are taking a closer look at how well they are serving the needs of their users. As a result assessment activities become more important. In this column, the authors will focus on and describe one major tool of assessment—the user survey.     

试论用户信息服务质量的满意度

随着互联网和信息技术的迅猛发展,现代信息服务事业也得到了空前的发展.过去,人们必须按照图书馆的开馆时间去查阅资料,现在可以随时在家里上网查阅;过去,文献资料是由图书馆按照自己的想法购置,现在,很多图书馆都提供网上荐购业务,读者能及时了解馆藏文献状态,参与图书馆信息资源建设;过去,图书借阅、续借、预约以及专业文献咨询都必须到图书馆来,而现在发个电子邮件就能解决问题;过去,人们对信息服务满意或不满意,通过信件、口头反映,而现在随时在网上发布,使得所有信息用户都能看到.信息服务依照用户需求正在不断深入,这是信息服务发生的巨变,"以用户为中心"不仅仅是信息服务的时尚口号,也日渐成为现实.