As the format of library materials changes, library staff must anticipate the evolving nature of the services that will be required to make it accessible. All Library users expect personal support and evaluative guidance. Cal's Teaching Library has been grappling with the integration of technology and services for several years. At its most basic, the Teaching Library has an active schedule of classes in which participants are taught how to find information in a variety of on-line and print sources. But the situation has gotten more complicated than that.
Many students do their work remotely, at home, in their dorms, apartments, away from the campus.
To support this mode of research we are creating self-paced interactive teaching modules for students to learn from a distance how to use remotely the resources at hand. I like to say that I've never had a bad day in an archive or library. I wish there had been more time this first year at UC Berkeley to spend in Bancroft on my research projects. I studied at the University of Virginia. I could go on with leads I am following in other Bancroft collections for my ongoing interests in the history of New Spain.