The reference staff can help with classroom sessions on advanced topics and with individual meetings with students planning search strategies. Of course, departments at Oberlin have structured their courses and their majors in diverse ways. Our intention here is primarily to call attention to the problem, and to leave its solution up to individual departments. We urge departments to discuss with the library staff the integration of information literacy into their curricula. We discuss here some ways that are currently being used to teach information literacy at Oberlin.
Many courses already make use of the library staff for bibliographic instruction.
Introduction to the History and Literature of Music . This is a 4-hour course required of all Conservatory students and taken by most in their first year. It contains a library skills component in which the students attend a lecture by the Conservatory Public Services Librarian on the use of OBIS and reference tools in music. This is a 3-hour course required of all Music History students. The course discusses essential bibliographic and research tools for music.