Research Catalog

Title

User instruction in academic libraries : a century of selected readings / compiled by Larry L. Hardesty, John P. Schmitt, John Mark Tucker.

Publication

Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hardesty, Larry L.
• Schmitt, John P., 1948-
• Tucker, John Mark

Description

xiii, 311 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Geschichte 1880-1980
• Academic libraries
• Library orientation for college students
• Libraries and students
• Benutzerschulung
• Hochschulbibliothek
• Aufsatzsammlung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

pt. 1. The beginning of a dialogue, 1880-1900. College libraries as aids to instruction : the college library (1880) / Justin Winsor -- College libraries as aids to instruction : Rochester University library--administration and use (1880) / Otis Hall Robinson -- Teaching bibliography in colleges (1886) / Raymond C. Davis -- The relation of the colleges to the modern library movement (1891) / Melvil Dewey -- pt. 2. The shaping of the research library and its instructional features, 1901-1917. A college course in bibliography (1912) / Joseph Schneider -- Training in the use of books (1912) / William Warner Bishop -- Instruction in the use of a college library (1913) / Lucy M. Salmon -- pt. 3. Philanthropy and innovation for undergraduates, 1918-1940. Bibliographical instruction for students (1928) / Charles B. Shaw -- Stephens College library experiment (1933) / B. Lamar Johnson -- The library arts college, a possibility in 1954? (1935) / Louis Shores -- Bridging the gap (1940) / Harvie Branscomb -- pt. 4. Search for identity in a time of growth, 1941-1968. A suggested program of college instruction in the use of the library (1956) / Patricia B. Knapp -- The methodology and results of the Monteith Pilot Project (1964) / Patricia B. Knapp -- Reference service : instruction or information (1965) / Anita R. Schiller -- The college becomes a library (1968) / Louis Shores -- pt. 5. Implementation in a time of retrenchment, 1969-1980. Integrated library instruction (1970) / James R. Kennedy, Jr. -- College librarians and the university-library syndrome (1974) / Evan Ira Farber -- Organizing the academic library for instruction (1975) / Howard Dillon -- Information structure and bibliographic instruction (1975) / Elizabeth Frick -- Academic libraries and undergraduate education : the CLR experience (1980) / Nancy E. Gwinn.

ISBN

• 0810818817
• 9780810818811

LCCN

86000960

OCLC

• ocm13094705
• 13094705
• SCSB-9492992

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library