Library Use Education: Current Practices and Trends.

Abstract

DURINGTHE PAST DECADE, interest in teaching patrons about the facilities, services, use, and collections of academic libraries has reblossomed and flourished. Commitment to the importance of and necessity for instruction in library use and in research strategy became widespread and accepted. And, as the ranks of library instruction advocates grew, so also did the need for centralizing data and collecting materials. Practitioners could not individually keep up with the burgeoning activity, and were concerned about duplication of effort and material. The idea for establishing a central clearinghouse agency to collect and loan both sample materials and the data from program methods was conceived in 1971, the result of a spontaneous, grassroots movement paralleling the growth of library instruction itself. In 1972 Project LOEX (Library OrientationAnstruction Exchange) became a working reality. After receiving essential financial support from the Council on Library Resources during the growing years of clearinghouse activity, the national LOEX office is now a totally self-supporting agency, and continues to function as a central exchange for library instruction programs in this country. As the number of library instruction programs in U.S. colleges and universities continues to grow, so does the clearinghouse collection of materials and its data base of facts and figures. Carolyn A. Kirkendall is Director of the national LOEX academic library instruction

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