Reference Services Review: Volume 32 Issue 4

Continuing the connections

Ilene F. Rockman

Reflects on the selected papers from the 2004 LOEX‐of‐the‐West Conference to note the importance of collaboration and connections to advance information literacy goals with…

Teaching the treasures: connecting students, information skills, and resources: an introduction to the special Loex‐of‐the‐West 2004 issue

Sylvia Tag

Provides an introduction to selected papers and an overview of the conference theme tracks, participants, and keynote address. The theme of the conference was “Teaching the…

What a difference a decade makes: transformation in academic library instruction

Lizabeth A. Wilson

In 1994, the author presented the inaugural LOEX‐of‐the‐West keynote entitled “Glacier or avalanche? Shifts in the electronic, educational, and library landscape”. She outlined…

Integrating discipline‐based anti‐plagiarism instruction into the information literacy curriculum

Lynn D. Lampert

This paper discusses the importance of developing a discipline‐based approach to the issue of plagiarism in information literacy instruction sessions. Through an examination of…

Understanding the millennials: updating our knowledge about students

Wendy Holliday, Qin Li

Brings together recent research on undergraduate information behavior, including preliminary findings of a qualitative study testing Kuhlthau's Information Search Process (ISP…

International business students: a study on their use of electronic library services

Yoo‐Seong Song

This study seeks to explore and report international business students’ perceptions and expectations of electronic library services at the University of Illinois at…

Evolving instruction in biology: using the web to improve in‐class instruction

Jennifer Lee, Don MacMillan

Much debate in the library literature has focused on the effectiveness of web‐based or online instruction versus traditional face‐to‐face library instruction. While both forms of…

Teaching information literacy using the short story

David J. Brier, Vickery Kaye Lebbin

Stories are powerful teaching tools because of their potential to stimulate the imagination of students and engage them with the material. The short story gives meaning to…

Your class meets where? Library instruction for business and education graduate students at off‐campus centers

Susan Clayton

Provides insight into one university library's experience in delivering library instruction to off‐campus students in the School of Business and the School of Education while also…

Librarians don't bite: assessing library orientation for freshmen

Ann Goebel Brown, Sandra Weingart, Judith R.J. Johnson, Betty Dance

Evaluates the effect of the library component of a freshman orientation program on student attitudes and library anxiety. A modified version of Bostick's Library Anxiety Scale was…

Teaching the teachers: teaching and learning online

Barbara A. Burd, Lori E. Buchanan

As online learning opportunities increase in today's society, librarians need to consider additional ways to design online instruction effectively. Developing the strategies…

Library instruction and information literacy – 2003

Anna Marie Johnson, Sarah Jent

This article presents an annotated bibliography of literature recently published on the topic of library instruction and information literacy in academic, school, public, special…