The University of California Libraries: A Plan for Development (1977)

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104 The University of California Libraries libraries even when confronted with questions best answered by the types of resources that libraries possess. 3 One question in the San Diego study was concerned with statistics on American Indians and "was designed to see if any of the information agencies would refer it to a library, since libraries in this region have especially strong holdings on American Indians," but "not one agency referred to a library." 4 The San Diego study concludes that there is an obvious "need to have a better perspective of the value of libraries as information agencies in their own right," and that "information agencies and libraries would benefit by working together and sharing resources." 5 Instruction and Educational Services. If there is a need for better information and referral services, there is also a growing and important need for better instruction and education of students in the use of libraries. The study at Yale referred to in Chapter II found that "the level of library skills possessed by users, especially undergraduates, is not high," 6 and Lubans' study at Colorado indicated that the students themselves agreed; only 31 percent of the undergraduates and 48 percent of the graduate students felt that they had sufficient training in finding information in the library. A full threequarters of the undergraduates and 70 percent of the graduate students agreed that "whenever I do research for a paper in the library I get the feeling that there are information resources on my topic which I'm somehow missing." 7 And a "recent, major study of reference services" concluded that "undergraduates are confused by the library, and require considerable help in finding their way around in it; they are unfamiliar 3 John R. Haak, The Information and Referral System in the San Diego Region, University of California at San Diego, 1976, p. 3. 4 Ibid., p. 9. 5 Ibid., p. 7. 6 Robert Balay and Christine Andrew, "Use of the Reference Service in a Large Academic Library," College and Research Libraries, v. 36, no. 1 (January 1975), p. 25. 7 Calculated from data in John Lubans, Jr., Report to the Council on Library Resources on a Fellowship, p. 17.
VII. Information and Instruction 105 with card catalogs and require assistance with the simplest lookups; they have difficulty finding materials in the stacks; they know little about bibliographic resources. In other words, they are unfamiliar with the rudimentary mechanics of library use." 8 The problem becomes serious as teaching methods change and place more emphasis on learning to learn, rather than on absorbing knowledge; as the report of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education notes, "the teaching of existing knowledge becomes comparatively less essential to the task of higher education, and the imparting of skills for continuing self-education comparatively more, particularly in independent study and through the library." 9 There are various ways in which instruction in using library materials can be given, and most of these ways have been used for some time in the University of California libraries. At the simplest level, there is the familiar "orientation" technique, or guided tour, the main purpose of which is to familiarize students with the layout of the library building and the location of various resources and services. At a more specific level, there are also "point-of-use" instructions, including printed guides on basic techniques in using the resources of the library; brochures on how to use bibliographic tools, such as indexing and abstracting services; video-tape, audio tape and slide-tape presentations; and personal guidance by reference librarians in methods of pursuing research in particular fields. In the last few years, a third type of instruction has also gained increasing support in academic libraries throughout this country and abroad, particularly in Great Britain. This method is the formal course in bibliographic and research methods, offered for academic credit, and particularly designed for undergraduate students. The major objective of such classes is to impart skills for continuing self-education on the part of the student, and they also "serve to 8 Quoted in Allan J. Dyson, "Organizing Undergraduate Library Instruction: The English and American Experience," Journal of Academic Librarianship, v. 1, no. 1 (March 1975), p. 11. 9 Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, Reform on Campus, McGraw- Hill, 1972, pp. 23-24.
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A PLAN FOR DEVELOPMENT Office of th
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CHAPTER I THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS LI
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I. The University and Its Libraries
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