Reference Services Review: Volume 26 Issue 2

Teaching Librarians to Teach: Recommendations on What We Need to Know

Maureen Kilcullen

Few librarians learn to teach by formal coursework. The literature reveals that librarians are teaching themselves to teach by attending conferences and workshops and reading the…

Partnering with Faculty to Interweave Internet Instruction into College Coursework

Topsy N. Smalley

As increasingly rich Web resources become available across all disciplines and occupational programs, the question is not whether but how to best integrate them into our…

Human Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Rights: A Selective Bibliography

Karen Rupp‐Serrano

Human reproductive technologies and reproductive rights have been controversial issues for two decades. As cloning techniques develop, it appears that they will only increase…

Library Services to a Linguistically Diverse Community: A Workshop Report from New Jersey

Betty Steckman, Diantha D. Schull, Adriana Acauan Tandler

By law and tradition, public libraries are charged with the task of serving all the residents of their communities. But how does a library serve a community in which many…

Computer Literacy and the Library: A New Connection

Rachel F. Fenske

At Eastern Washington University, integrating basic library skills has become part of a unique computer literacy program stemming from a general education (GE) reform. The new GE…

Librarian in a Strange Land: Teaching a Freshman Orientation Course

Sarah Blakeslee

The opportunity to teach a three unit general educational freshman orientation class is a dream come true for any instruction librarian. In this article, Blakeslee discusses the…

Browser’s Choice: A Comparative Use Study of Traditional and Electronic Vertical Files

Chris Neuhaus

The utility and viability of print vertical files often has been questioned in the literature. Recently, alternatives or supplements to the print vertical file have been proposed…

Criminal Justice Web Sites

Timothy Dodge

Criminal justice is a major concern of American society and a vast amount of research is published each year on this topic. In this article, Dodge reviews 15 Web sites, which have…