Evaluation of academic librarians' instructional performance: Report of a national survey

Research Strategies

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 159-175

  Ragains, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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EID: 0031537045     PISSN: 07343310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0734-3310(97)90036-7     Document Type: Article

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4. Werking Richard Hume. Evaluating Bibliographic Education: A Review and Critique. two comprehensive reviews of the literature on evaluating library instruction are Library Trends. 29:Summer 1980;153-172.
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12. Branching Out: A Required Library Research Course Targets Disciplines and Programs. and a discipline-based course titled Agricultural Information Literacy at Montana State University, Bozeman., reported in Caria List The Reference Librarian. (no. 51/52):1995;385-398 Examples of credit-based library instruction known to the author include two courses on government publications taught by librarians employed in the Documents and Maps Section of the Pennsylvania State University Libraries; general information literacy courses taught at Montana State University, Bozeman and the University of New Mexico Libraries; a course at SUNY Plattsburgh.
13. World Wide Web-based library instruction tutorials available at the time of this writing include sites available at: New Mexico State University 〈http://library.nmsu.edu/projects/tutorial/index.html〉, Cornell University 〈http://urislib.library.cornell.edu/tutorial.html〉, Ohio State University 〈http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/Gateway/〉, and Johns Hopkins University 〈http://www.welch.jhu.edu/Education/tutorials/practicum.html〉.
14. Institutions of Higher Education and Branches, by Type, Control of Institution, and State: 1994-95. Digest of Education Statistics. 1995;248 Government Printing Office, Washington, The author also acknowledges Graduate Assistant Marisa Dhaneswongse for her assistance in creating Figures 1-4., 1995, Source for total numbers of institutions.