Preparation for Undergraduate Bibliographic Instruction: A Personal Experience

Abstract

Effective library use by students is one goal of most bibliographic instruction librarians. The content of bibliographic instruction varies between institutions and more importantly, between groups within the same institution. This article reminds us tht preparation for a library instruction class involves more than the "grabbing of materials" five minutes before the class arrives. The intent of this article is to share certain steps of preparatin for bibliographic instruction classes that this librarian has found useful and that can be used with any orientation class.