Library Instruction West 2014: Open, Sustainable Instruction

Proprietary versus Open Instruction Sets

......An instruction set architecture (ISA) is one of the most important interfaces in a computer system because it divides software from hardware. Most widely used ISAs were developed decades ago and are proprietary. This may make sense because hardware implementations were and are mostly proprietary and most software was proprietary when these ISAs were developed. Today, however, we appreciat...

Academic Library Instruction Using the WWW

Multilevel library instruction for emerging nursing roles.

As new nursing roles emerge that involve greater decision making than in the past, added responsibility for outcomes and cost control, and increased emphasis on primary care, the information-seeking skills needed by nurses change. A search of library and nursing literature indicates that there is little comprehensive library instruction covering all levels of nursing programs: undergraduate, re...

Teaching about teaching and instruction on instruction: a challenge for health sciences library education.

OBJECTIVE This is a review of the master's-level curricula of the fifty-eight America Library Association-accredited library and information science programs and iSchools for evidence of coursework and content related to library instruction. Special emphasis is placed on the schools and programs that also offer coursework in medical or health sciences librarianship. METHODS Fifty-eight school...

Making Online Instruction Count: Statistical Reporting of Web-Based Library Instruction Activities

Tim Bottorff is Head Librarian in the Universal Orlando Foundation Library at the University of Central Florida (Rosen College campus); e-mail: [email protected]. Andrew Todd is Reference Librarian, Regional Campus Libraries at the University of Central Florida (BCC/UCF Joint Use Library); e-mail: [email protected]. © Tim Bottorff and Andrew Todd Statistical reporting of library instru...