The goal of the library instruction program is to help students develop the skills to locate and evaluate the information they need, using the library collection, electronic resources, interlibrary loan, and the Internet. Faculty are encouraged to call the Reference Desk, ext. 0224, or to stop by the library soon to talk with a librarian. Librarians are happy to conduct a session for any beginning or advanced-level course. Timing is important.
Students are more motivated when their research assignments and library instruction coincide.
Students benefit more from library instruction when they have a clear understanding of their course research assignment beforehand. Faculty participation reinforces the session's connection to a course and the assignment. Hands-on practice is available. Future Library Planned-Presidential, that is. More than 76 million pages of documents have been moved to Little Rock, Ark., where the monumental task of sorting materials for the Clinton Library has begun.