Until recently, the user instruction program of Purdue University's
Management and Economics (M&E) Library was concentrated almost
completely in two areas: (1) first week student orientation sessions, and (2)
occasional lectures to subject-specific courses. This approach was not completely
unsuccessful, the library reached a total of more than 2,400 students
campus-wide during the 1996-97 academic year. The orientation sessions,
however, often presented problems. The students were given too much
information before they were ready to use it, and the research strategies that
were taught appeared to be forgotten by the time they were needed. Also, the
subject-specific lectures during courses reached only a fraction of the entire
student population that needed instruction. The spring 1997 semester
brought about a significant change in this approach to teaching information
research skills and familiarity with library resources to undergraduate students
in Purdue's School of Management
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