Developing a model of library user education for freshman science students

James A. Van Fleet; D. S. Thompson

Developing a model of library user education for freshman science students

James A. Van Fleet, D. S. Thompson

Bucknell University

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Abstract

Discusses the cooperative effort between librarians and science faculty at Bucknell University in developing an effective library use education course for incoming undergraduate science and engineering students. Describes course structure and activities, and includes a library instruction bibliography. (five references) (EA)

Original language	American English
Journal	Default journal
Volume	10
State	Published - Jan 1 1992

Keywords

terms from the thesaurus of ERIC descriptors
college freshmen
college libraries
critical thinking
engineering education
higher education
indexes
library instruction
models
online catalogs
optical data disks
reference materials
required courses
science instruction
student motivation
undergraduate study
users (information)

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Library and Information Science

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