Integrating Library Use Skills Into the General Education Curriculum

This provocative new book will help you design and implement the most effective library user education possible--one that builds on basic library use skills through a progressively sophisticated program that is fully integrated into course curriculum at all levels, from the freshman year to graduation and beyond. By exploring major issues underlying the integration of library use skills and research methodologies into the general education curriculum, contributors raise important questions, offer creative ideas, and provide insight into the many improvements made in library instruction in the past few years. Following an introduction by Patricia Breivik, a recognized national authority on libraries and general education, contributors representing two- and four-year institutions and research universities discuss such issues as the relationship between high school and college programs, research skills instruction in a remote access environment, the use of microcomputers and end user searching programs to promote critical thinking, and the improved relationship between librarians and faculty. In addition to articles on library instruction geared towards question analysis, information generation by field, structure of published knowledge and dissemination of a discipline's literature, chapters identify cooperative efforts needed among school, public, special, academic libraries and other information agencies, computer center personnel, and online database vendors. Bibliographic instruction librarians who are active participants in planning and administering library user education programs will find this volume to be essential for building and developing stronger, more integrated programs.

Maureen Pastine and Bill Katz

Contents Introduction - Part I: General - Politics for Closing the Gap - Staffing for Bibliographic Instruction: Issues and Strategies for New and Expanding Programs - Structures of Bibliographic Instruction Programs: A Continuum for Planning - Part II: Bridging the Gap Between High School and College - Library Use Skills for College-Bound High School Students: A Survey - Part III: Library Skills in a Community College - Building Alliances: General Education and Library Skills in a Community College - Part IV: Library Skills in Colleges and Universities - University Approval of Library Research Skills as Part of the General Education Curriculum Requirements - The View From Square One: Librarian and Teaching Faculty Collaboration on a New Interdisciplinary Course in World Civilizations - Bringing an Interdisciplinary World View to English 101--The Library's Involvement - Improving and Integrating Bibliographic Instruction - International Students' Acquisition of Library Research Skills: Relationship With Their English Language Proficiency - Part V. Library Use Skills for Off-Campus Programs - Andragogy Off-Campus: The Library's Role - The Bibliographic Instruction Librarian's New Constituency: Adult Independent Learners - Part VI: Library Use Skills: Issues Related to Microcomputers and End-User Online Searching - An Integrated Planning Process for Library Skills: Paper-Based and Computer-Based Instruction - Knowledge-Based Instruction for Lifelong Learning - Making Communication: A Theoretical Framework for Educating End-Users of Online Bibliographic Information Retrieval Systems - Emerging Microcomputer Technology: Impact on Bibliographic Instruction - Microcomputers and Bibliographic Instruction - Part VII: Other Considerations for Integration of Library Use Skills - Bibliographic Instruction and Critical Inquiry in the Undergraduate Curriculum - General Education, Graduate Education, and Instruction in the Use of Libraries - Impact and Implications of a Library-Use Integrated Education Program - Term Paper Counseling: The Library's Tutorial - Fifteen Ways to Meet Your User: Public Relations and Outreach Suggestions for Bibliographic Instruction - Alternatives to the Term Paper: An Aid to Critical Thinking - Bibliographic Instruction: Building the Librarian/Faculty Partnership - Part VIII: The Past and the Future - Conclusion