School

Public

Academic

Special

LIBRARY INSTRUCTION ROUND TABLE NEWS

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The purpose

LIRT
September

2000 volume 23

of LIRT is to advocate library instruction as a means for developing competent

library and information use as a part of life-long learning.

no. 1

issn

Teaching

as

Performance:

Standing

Room

0270-6792

Only

By Cynthia Akers, akerscyn@emporia.edu

Judging from the enthusiastic responses from over 350

people attending the LlRT Conference Program 2000, Teach
ing as Performance, instruction librarians are greatly inter
ested in honing their skills as effective, confident speakers and
presenters of information.

In her PowerPoint
to

presentation, Antonelli highlighted the

up physically for teachinq as, indeed, a

necessity
performance. Neck and shoulder rolls, voice exercises and
variety, and the "power of silence" to make a point to students
all help to set the stage for instruction. And, as Antonelli
warm

demonstrated,

even a

prop such

as a

rubber chicken

not

can

Monika Antonelli, Reference Librarian at the University of North

Texas, and Joe Dempsey, a Chicago actor who is also an

only break the ice, but also serve as a lesson in keyword

searching in several Internet search engines to highlight

American Theatre

Company member and a former Second

City National Touring Company member, shared on Sunday
morning, July 9, their experiences in performing to a variety of
audiences from university students to other less-than

variances in retrieval.

enthusiastic groups.

natural part of teaching as performance.

The best way to deal with it is to be honest about what you
are feeling at the moment, but at the same time be prepared

Antonelli, who also holds

her talk with

Dempsey acknowledged
nervousness

degree in theatre, began

display her other career in voic

master's

voice to

sample
ing for television cartoons. The sound illustrated how audi
ences can be swayed by tight, high, nervous voices as op
posed to resonant, low tones. This point was reinforced by an
audience exercise in "King Kong, Ping Pong, Bing Bong" sung
in progressively lower ranges to loosen the voice.
a

The Institute for Information

beginning of

his talk that

with your material.

Dempsey observed, "You are there to teach, but they

[students] are there to teach you also." This statement, he
noted, is important to remember because not every tech
nique will work with every audience.

As

continued

on

page 2

...

INSIDE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE

By Gale Burrow, gburrow@rocky.claremont.edu

p. 2

Officers

of Immersion '99, I encourage those of you in

academic and research libraries to apply to participate in
a

at the

Literacy,

Immersion '01

As

is

graduate

Committee

Reports

Nominations Needed for Officers

Immersion '01, which is scheduled for Washington, D.C., in

2001. The Immersion Program, one of the ACRL Institute

p. 3

ALA Council..

July

Literacy program initiatives, is an intensive four

and one-half day series of classes, discussions, projects, and
fun that will benefit both you and your institution. You will have

p. 7
p. 10

for Information

opportunity to develop and apply instructional skills in your

classes, plan for your own and your library's role in furthering
information literacy on your campus, and become part of a
community of librarians who continue to share ideas about
information literacy and instruction.
the

continued

on

page 10

ARTICLES
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(Chat)

p. 4
p. 8

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LlRT OFFICERS

CHAIRPERSONS 2000/2001

AND

...

ELECTED OFACERS

And, in the

case

of

bad

seemingly ineffective

or a

session, it is necessary
...

performance

PRESIDENT
Alison Armstrong,

ASSISTANT TREASURERt'TREASURER ELECT

Marcia King-Blanford,

alison.armstrong@uc.edu

instruction

to "shake it off

forgive yourself."

mkingbl@utnet.utoledo.edu

VICE PRESIDENTIPRESIDENT- ELECT

Linda Chopra, Linda.Chopra@lorain.lib.oh.us

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Mitch Stepanovich, stepanov@flash.net

SECRETARY

An interactive

question-and-answer
period with the speakers and audience
generated some additional valuable
tips for dealing with unenthusiastic
students. If they do not want to be in a
session, acknowledge their resistance
and accomplish what is possible.
Antonelli added that, if a student gives
a

wrong

answer

to

question, "Always

say yes to the class" while following up

with the correct answer in a dialogue
with the class.
case of inheriting a bad class
dynamic or other difficult classes,
speakers noted that a problem

Judy Clarence, jclarenc@csuhayward.edu

Tim

both

should not be denied.

to address the
use

Instead, attempt

problem upfront and

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Mary Ellen Leverence,

CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2001

Dempsey were both

examples of the quote ending
Antonelli's presentation: "Don't be
Antonelli and

excellent

afraid to go out on
where the fruit is."

Antonelli's PowerPoint

presentation

Pixey Mosley, pmosley@tamu.edu

Stephanie Michel, smichel@radford.edu

PUBUCATIONS

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is

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TRANSITION FROM HiGH SCHOOL TO COULEGE

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LIAISON

or

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25TH ANNIVERSARY TASK FORCE

Diana D. Shonrock,

Kay Stebbins,

Cynthia Akers from Emporia State

University, Kansas, is the ALA-URT
Conference Program Chair for 2001 .

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John S. Spencer, spencerj@cwu.edu

available as a link from the LlRT home

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2002

ELECTIONS

limb, for that is

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Mitch Stepanovich, stepanov@flash.net

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(

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humor, but carefully, depending

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In the
room

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TREASURER

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For a complete directory that includes addresses,
phone numbers and institutional affiliations,

LONG-RANGE PLANNING COMMITTEE

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consult the L1RT Website at

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2000

ALA

ALA Annual Conference 2000 Council Activities

.. NEWS ..

By Tim Grimes,

L1RT

Councilor, GrimesT@aadl.org

Council sessions at ALA Annual

CORE VALUES STATEMENT

proved to be quite interesting as the

organization tackled several key is
sues, including Core Values for Librar

The Core Values Task Force

ians.

Here

are some

of

highlights

sessions:

important

ALA COUNClt..fExECUTIVE BOARD/

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION SESSION
& COUNCIL I
These

Sunday morning meetings

contained several reports of the year's
activities, including those by William
Gordon, ALA executive director; the
Budget Analysis and Review Commit
tee; the Endowment Trustees, the
Freedom to Read Foundation and the
and

outgoing

incoming

ALA

presi

dents.

Wednesday
morning meeting centered around the
Outsourcing Study and a policy for
Library Services for People with Dis

and

abilities.

was

instructed to prepare a draft

targeted for approval at this

statement

conference.

OUTSOURCING STUDY

The statement,
and 6th drafts,

presented in its 5th

quite controversial
and a major topic of Council. Many
its
questions concerning the draft
necessity, its audience, its comprehen
was

siveness

consumed much of the

morning debate. A resolution eventu

ally passed building on the work of
-

the current talk force and other ALA

by

the

president)

the topic

Outgoing
Long discussed

the

success

of her

was

to

document back to

ALA President Sarah Ann

present

across

core

values

group (assigned
which will discuss
a

the Association and

to a new

proposal

at 2001

Annual Council.

Nancy

Kranich

Incoming president
reported that her presi

dential theme would be 'Libraries: The

Cornerstone of
an

ALA

Democracy'. Plans for

promotional campaign '@your

library' were announced, with libraries

encouraged to place their own words
in front of the @ (i.e. smart voting be
gins @ your library; learn the magic of
books @ your library etc.). ALA mem
bership has now exceeded 60,000,
and the organization appears to be
quite fiscally sound. There was much
discussion concerning the endowment
trustees

report,

called for

more

as

several councilors

socially responsible

Council also voted to

investing.
tinue its
new

new program of
councilors.

OTHER ITEMS

re

evidence supports the conclusion that

outsourcing has been an effective

managerial tool and, when used care

fully and judiciously, has resulted in

Councilors raised much

A UTA task force

in

study was done by the Texas Woman's

University School of Library and Infor
mation Studies. The study concludes
that, "in general, we found no evidence
that outsourcing per se has had a
negative impact on library services and
management. On the contrary, the

im

concern

with

presented a docu
ment concerning the impact of new
technologies on patron privacy and the
confidentiality of electronic methods.

many Councilors urging ALA to take

firm stance on the issue and many

The document recommended, among

other items, to revise ALA's policy

voted to receive the document.

statements related to

further research, Council passed a

resolution that ALA would bng toge

confidentiality to
include Internet privacy; for ALA to
develop model privacy policies and to
urge all libraries to adopt privacy policy
statements on their web sites.

Council voted to refer these

The

recom

calling

for

ment.

After

of the

passion in the docu

lengthy debate, Councilors

more

study's

Instead

recommendations for

guidelines for outsourdl'hg, mak

ing them widely available and also
develop a definition of outsourcing. An
ther

additional amendment also called for

mendations to the Intellectual Free

increased research

dom Committee.

(the report

in its

on

the

entirely

subject.

is available

on

the web at

After debate,

resolution from the

<http://www.ala.org/alaorg/
ors/outsourclnq/ ).

membership committee, which would

have raised dues for organizational
memberships, was referred back to

COUNCIL II

study

sponse to a motion passed by Council

at the 1999 Midwinter meeting. The

library services and

proved library management."

con

mentoring

ALA commissioned this

enhanced

term and her theme 'Libraries Build

Communities'.

Much of the debate of this

clarify the core values of

the profession, as a result of the 1999
Congress on Professional Education,
appointed

documents to refer the

HiGHLIGHTS

COUNCIL III

continued

on

page 4

...

committee.
Much of the discussion at this

morning meeting

centered

on

Tuesday
the

core

values statement, but the meeting also

contained reports from ALA Treasurer
Bruce Daniels and

changes

in

request for

organizational

dues.

Linda Sammataro of the

A report from the ALA Electronic Meet

ing Task Force, which contained 5

recommendations

concerning chat
passed.

University

of Tennessee

in Knoxville has been

Once of these recommendations calls

awarded a UT Teaching
Technology grant to develop a web
module on finding statistics on current

for future chat-room

issues. sammataro@utk.edu

based tools for committees

access

for

com

with

mittees that request it.

URT News,

September

2000

Publish Your Article Outside the

Non-Library
Librarians,

Library

Field: A

Bibliographic Guide

and Information Science Journals With Articles

or

to

Libraries,

on

Library Services
By

Rebecca Ohm

Spencer, Rebecca.Ohm.Spencer@williams.edu

pleased to announce the

publication and distribution of its long-term special project, a bibli
ography of non-library journals that have published articles relating
to libraries or the library profession.

It is hoped that Publish Your Article Outside the

Library Field will help librarians and other informa
tion science professionals expand their publishing
opportunities by identifying journals to which they

Publish Your Article Outside the

benefit, however, is

The Publications Committee of LlRT is

Library

Field is the result of several

years of work on the part of the Publications Committee, during

which time many members came and went, each contributing in
some

in these

The sheer size of the

bibliography and the frequently changing

journal information certainly made updating every single entry ac
cording to the current edition of Ulrich's a daunting task and greatly
contributed to the length of the project.
To

compile

the

the initiators if the

bibliography,

project

journals

may contribute to
value of what we

way.

In addition to this obvious

may submit their work.

many

areas

added bonus:

by publishing
profession, we
a broader understanding of the
do among other professionals in
an

outside

our own

of science, business and the humani

ties.
Publish Your Article Outside the

is

and subse

quent committee members performed subject searches in auto

mated databases such as ABIIINFORM, COMPENDEX, ERIC,

ment Documents Librarian at

ArticleFirst from First Search and MEDLINE

iams

library-related

Library Field

available from LlRT for $12.50.

(among others)

Rebecca Ohm

for

articles.

Although it was expected that the number of

enough to warrant compiling a bibli
type, no one expected it to be 50 pages long!

College

Spencer

is Reference and Govern

Sawyer Library,

Williamstown MA 01267.

Will

articles would be substantial

ography

of this

The range of fields represented

with journals such as Pulp and

by these journals is very broad,

Paper, Canadian Ethics Studies,
Laboratory Robotics and Automation, Nebraska History, The Practi
cal Litigator, Astrophysics and Space Science, and even the Char
tered Accountant Journal of New Zealand being included among
the journals which have published articles relating to the library or
information science field.

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presented. Council's primary con
cern with the document was the desire to replace of
language stating that libraries must provide these
services ALA Annual Conference 2000 Chicago
Council Activities to language that stating that ALA
strongly recommends that libraries provide these
services. Bya narrow vote (by 1 vote), the document
A resolution for
Disabilities

was

was

sent back to ALSCA for more revision.

Mail to: HRDR

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A motion for

stronger reporting on socially respon

investing failed; a resolution to establish a
standing committee on literacy passed as did reso
lutions for several organizational committee mis
sions and charges. Changes to wording in several

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2000

Asserts that

CHECK THESE OUT!

will be

By Mary Pagliero Popp

nights are cooler. Start Fall off

right by taking a little time to dip into

and

Astleitner, Hermann.

where to find

"Designing

to its

keeping

schedule.

journal,
some

Using

The editor, Natalie Pelster,

told readers of the BI-L listserv

10 that "we

are

tion." The date

still
on

active

an

May
publica

the issues" is out of

tional
27.5

are

instructional

published

in

May

Don't be

University
315-325)

Instruction."

and

Implementing

Computer

for the Libraries' Online

to

Self

number of
to motivate

strategies

Library

and the differences between types

of periodicals. The instructional

Authors Needed!
reviews of books,

September

A Pilot

electronic

searching.

one

Lederer

a discussion of a survey
of the composition instructors.

ends with

Mestre, Lori S. "Improving Computer

"Brain-Based

verse

Backgrounds." Knowledge
28.5 (May/June 2000): 20-

Quest

Summarizes the

Discusses the ways instruction in

use of computers for minority

growing body of
learning,

theory

on

brain-based

based

on

evidence

neurologists

are

about how humans

motivation.

This is not

one

might

scholarly

to useful books

read to learn

more.

28.

La,inos, must
instructiotgiven to

students, particularly
differ from the

mainstream students.

Mestre

provides information about learning

styles, eye contact, group vs. indivi
dual instruction, kinetic behavior,
She
space, and touch.

personal

concludes the article with

suggestions

for

series

working

with

Latino and other diverse groups in

IDEAS YOU CAN USE TODAY

Instruction

Thinking Skills:
Study." (pp.309-314)

shots,

informa

Learning" Training & Development

54.7 (July 2000): 20-24.

article, but it points

Catalog."

Encourage

Creative

LlRT News,

on a

learn. Weiss presents sections on

attention, context and patterns,
emotion, memory and recall, and

Tutorial

Session to Use Critical and

l_

for

of

Olson, John A. "How

screen

on

(pp. 271-284)

Students in

gives practical

ARCS is based

uncovering

Johnson, Anna Marie and Phil Sager.

''Too Many Students, Too Little Time:
Paced Interactive

Filled with

the article

Use Success for Students of Di

(pp. 259-270).

Creating

bibliography

and describes

Weiss, Ruth Palombo.

Library." (pp.

Bibliographic

to motivate

learning: attention, relevance,

confidence, and satisfaction.

Gedeon, Randle. "Accessing the Right

Brain with

courses.

web pages include interactive

exercises and the article shows

reading,

four essential

RIO Tutorial at the

of Arizona

program at Colorado

Congress call numbers, evaluat

ing books, articles and Web sites,

motivational theories and identifies

2000.

Scalable Instruc

University to create Web

pages for first-year composition
State

useful assessment instrument.

more

Bender, Laura J. and Jeffrey M. Rosen.

'Working Toward
tion: Creating the

28.2

tion about the research web pages,

which cover such topics as Library

29-31.

design

learners, provides

put off by the issue date! This issue

was

RSR

of

soon.

below.

highlighted

Teacher Librarian

Design."

(June 2000):

Summarizes the ARCS model of

A few of the many interesting articles in

the most recent issue (v. 16, no, 4

1998)

negative feelings
positive feelings.

Skills."

Review)

130-153.

Describes

to decrease

Small, Ruth. "Motivation in Instruc

Two addi

tional issues should be out

(2000):

and increase

publication."

2000 will be dated 1999.

include fear, envy, anger, satisfac

tion, and pleasure. Astleitner

on

sync with the actual calendar date of

Issues coming out in

Thinking

(Reference Services

gies

web

the Web to Teach Research

Emotions relevant for instruction

describes 20 instructional strate

publication

information, and

completed

Lederer, Naomi. "New Form(at):

and Critical

in

more

pages.

Emotionally Sound Instruction: The

FEASP-approach." Instructional
Science 28.3 (May 2000): 169-198.

ARTICLES FROM AN OLD FRIEND:

they

web site at the

where to post the

of the wonderful articles your

colleagues have shared.

difficulty

site

learn

Gives many practical

about what to cover,

time.

suggestions

ENHANCING LEARNING

some

In recent years, the instruction

Research Strategies has had

effective if

more

how to create
same

The start of the Fall is, for many, a new

beginning. School starts. The days

teaching students
a good web

about what makes

Braun, Linda W. "Learning from the

Inside."

NetConnect Supplement
Library Journal and School Li
brary Journal (Summer 2000): 28-30.

computerized environment, covering

presentation methods, language,
search strategies, and classroom
environment.

continued

on

page 6

...

to

LlRT News welcomes articles

software,

2000

or

hardware

products.

on

teaching techniques, successful assignment, technologies. in teaching, and

guidelines, see <http://www.ufllb.ufl.edulinstructlLlRT/ghnes.html>

For

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Check These Out

continued from page 5

INBRIEF

...

Ingram, Albert L. "Using Web Server

Logs in Evaluating Instructional
Web Sites." Journal of Educational

CLICK ON THESE!
This is

section, containing infor

a new

mation about web sites that

are

Odom, Dennis G. and Alexia C. Strout

Dapaz. "The 'Open House,' an
Effective

Hope

them!

enjoy

Technology Systems 28.2(19982000): 137-157.

of

interest to instruction librarians.

you

Puffer-Rothenberg, Maureen and

Susan E. Thomas. "Providing
Library Outreach to Student Ath
letes." (begins on page 131)

page

...

Reading Hypertext?" Knowl

edge Quest 28.4 (March/April 2000):

Library

Public Relations

and Instruction Tool."

Intrator, Sam M. "Starter Dough: Click,

Click, Click What Do We Know

(begins

on

175)

about
Association of

Libraries.

College

and Research

Scott. "Pathfinders Go Online."

NetConnect

Instruction Section.

Objectives for Information Literacy

Instruction by Academic Librarians.
Chicago: ALA, 2000. <http://
www.libraries.rutgers.edu/is/
projects/objectives/index.html>
Accessed July 29,2000.

Laning. "Recipe

for Disaster

Formula for Success?

or

Creating

Assessing a Large Scale

Collaborative Library Introduction
and

Exercise for Honors Students."

and Research Libraries

Draft revision of the 1987 Model

News 61.7

Statement of

601.

Objectives for Aca

Bibliographic Instruction.

Supplement to Library
Library Journal
(Summer 2000): 40-42.

Journal and School

Johnson, Anna Marie and Melissa

College

demic

(July/August 2000):

Patrick.

Library

Member A-U RT

"Assessment in

Knows Best--Some

and Information

Instruction."

Worthy

Tutorials to

July 29, 2000.

"Articles," then scroll down

Provides links to a variety of
resources on topics such as
distance education and

Knotts, Barbara. "Technology Training

ment, gateway sites for assess

ment, pretests, web-based presen
tations about assessment of

library

instruction, research in progress,

student reactions to

library

to "Surf

For."

assess

instruc

tion, and usability testing of library

at St. Louis Public

Library." Journal
Library Administration 29.1
(1999): 17-35. Also published in
2000 by the Haworth Press as a
monograph: Library Training for
of

Staff and Customers.

Several useful articles

Workshop on
Use, May 8-10,

tions/Handouts.

Instruction in

Library

2000. Presenta

Includes many of the papers and

PowerPoint presentations from the
most recent of these well-known

tions about

Included

course

creating

library

are

presenta

instruction

instruction for data

literacy, teaching
and the charac

catalog,
of teaching

and

learning

in

or

week, making beaded and semi

precious stone earrings, and traveling.

Having been an "Air Force brat," Linda
was able to travel extensively at a
young age. She has lived in both
Europe and Asia and says that the

"urge to explore new places and meet

new people is in my blood." Since
meeting new people is a big part of
LlRT, it sounds like Linda's first
mittee

assignment

Committee

com

the PRiMember

on

perfect

was a

Let's welcome Linda to her

as

match!

new

posi

the L1RT Vice PresidenVPresi

dent-Elect.

Gresham, Keith and Debra Van Tassel.

"Expanding the Learning Commu

thanks for

Congratulations and
taking on this new endeavor

Linda.

Tracy

Hull is the Resource Education

and Drama Librarian at Duke

University's Lilly Library.

Neely, Teresa Y., Naomi Lederer, and

Jean Winkler. "Instruction and
Outreach at Colorado State Univer
on

page

273)

Norlin, Elaina and Patricia Morris.

the online
teristics

include:

sity." (begins

for business students,

instruction on the Web,

ethnic foods, jogging two

three miles a couple of times a

eating spicy

tion

nity: An Academic Library Outreach

Program to High Schools." (begins
on page 161)

2000.

cooking and

Other hobbies include

in

London, Ontario:

University
<http://www.lib.uwo.ca/wilu2000/
papers.htrnb- Accessed July 29,

workshops.

appeared

The Reference Librarian number 67/68

(1999). These

of Western Ontario, 2000.

...

ship

instructional web pages.

29th

continued from page 9

Web

Help You Create Your

Own." School Library Journal 46.5
(May 2000): 37. Also available at:
<http://www.slj.com> Choose

Literacy
<http://www.library.

unr.edu/-ragains/assess.html>
Accessed

Mary Pagliero Popp is Information

Technologies Public Services Librar
ian, at the Indiana University
Bloomington Libraries

597-

Junion-Metz, Gail. "Surf for: Teacher

Ragains,

O'Sullivan, Michael K. and Thomas J.

31-34.

"Developing Proactive Partnerships:

Minority Cultural Centers." (begins
on page 147)

Maggie Zarnovsky of
Northern Virginia Commu
nity College has coauthored the 4th edition of

Developing Library

and Information

Center Collections

(with

G. Edward

Evans; Libraries Unlimited, 2000).

mzarnovsky@nv.cc.va.us

L1RT News,

September

2000

ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE REPORTS

from LlRT Committees and Task Forces
(Editor's note: Absence of a committee
indicates that the report was not received
by press time. See the web edition of the
L1RT News for

meeting attendance,

and

chair.)

Ed Tallent, Chair, tallent@bc.edu

Gale announced that the LlRT manual

Committee members confirmed their

will be

choices of instruction-related

for review

has been converted to html format and

meetings

to attend. Summaries will be forward

ed to Ed for the Newsletter. Trish

COMPUTER ApPLICATIONS COMMmEE

Haiwang Yuan, Chair,

haiwang. yuan@wku.edu

bibliography

newsletter committee for

publication.
Discussed tasks including software
review and hardware bibliography.
the committee's

changing
name from Computer Application
Committee to Information Technology
Committee to reflect technology repre
sented by the Internet and the World
Wide Web. Will recommend the

change

to the

Steering

name

Committee.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Anne Houston, Chair,
ahousto@ luc.edu

The committee reviewed evaluations

from this

year's program, discussed

possible speakers for next

theme and

year, and brainstormed titles for next

year. Decided to recommend to the

Steering Committee the program idea:

"Partnerships for Instruction," on aca
demic librarians partnering for instruc
tion with school librarians, school with
public, academic with public, etc.

ELECTIONS COMMmEE
Elizabeth

Margutti, Chair,
margutti@virginia.edu
Discussed

potential officers;

will

use

list of past three years of LlRT commit

tee chairs and members to create
excel file so that names can be readily
compiled. Decided to recommend to
the Steering Committee that once this

Marsha Forys, Chair,

marsha-forys@uiowa.edu

planning

and

membership,

goal evaluation forms,

the need to distribute the revised

goals,

and the 2004 retreat. Also

vision for how the various

together

to further the

of LlRT.

the Executive Board. Recommenda

tions to the Executive Board:

times for

Steering

to committee chairs

8:00

meeting

and Executive need

to be reconsidered.

1) find another
meetings now scheduled at
p.m. 2) first Executive meeting

2)
This committee needs Steering's input
for the retreat: what would Steering like
to get out of the retreat?

should be before All Committees

NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE

chairs should be scheduled at 11 :00

Jana Ronan,

Acting Chair,
jronan@ufl.edu

a.m. on

The committee determined the content

PRIMEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE

of the

goals

September

2000 issue of the

newsletter, which will be edited coop

eratively.

Carol Carson Schuetz will be

chair for 2000-2001, and will

be the editor starting with the Decem
the

new

on

Saturday 3) have a general member

ship meeting at the beginning of All
Committees meeting on Saturday
morning 4) orientation for officers and

Saturday, after
meeting.

All Committees

Pixey Anne Mosley, Chair,

pmosley@tamu.edu
Discussion: BITES with LlRT had
normal

signup patterns (less

on

Mon

In addition, the group

decided to mount tips for writing ar

day).

ticles

year, will not depend on LlRT Newslet

ter ad, but will also post on LlRT-L and

ber 2000 issue.

on

the LlRT News website.

Had difficulties with the booth,

Next
volunteers to set up and sta

no

Members also made plans for a spe

cial issue of LlRT News to celebrate

two NMRT functions. Recommenda

the 25th

tions to the

article about the

more

anniversary, featuring an
history of LlRT, a
time line to accompany the article, and
reprints of the best past articles (which
will be made available exclusively in
the Web edition.) The newsletter will
also run "teaser boxes" with LlRT facts,
etc. in the issues

leading

up to the

ORGANIZATION & BYLAWS COMMmEE

copy

and strengthening the

Steering Committee and

time for

committee members, then give

to the Elections Committee.

clarifying

roles of the

brainstormed ideas for the 25th anni

revised

a recommen

dation to the Executive Board focused

versary. Recommendations to the

Steering Committee: 1) Distribute

anniversary.

Gale Burrow, Chair,

Web site. LlRT had

representation

Steering

members

on

at

Committee: need

the committee-- it

requires approximately 10 people to

complete all activities effectively. Also
need more membership participation
in activities such as booth and BITES.

Recommendation to the Executive

Board: send LlRT

rel

evant listservs

was

promotion to
beyond BI-L, as

done two years ago.

continued

on

page 10

...

gburrow@rocky.clarmont.edu

LIAISON COMMmEE

September

The committee will take

on

Discussed committee

file is created, the vice president

should maintain it from the roster of

LlRT News,

and of

committees work

LONG RANGE PLANNING COMMITTEE

to be submitted to the

Discussed

at the NMRT Orientation.

present

goals

The committee reviewed and finalized

the

Stevenson collected LlRT materials to

posted after Annual Conference

by Steering. Concern was
expressed for the potential loss of a
sense of LlRT as a whole community

2000

Reference, A Hot New Idea for Extending Services

Virtual

to Remote Users

By Jana Smith Ronan, jronan@ufl.edu

Virtual reference is

one

of the hottest

ideas in reference and instruction

new

circles

right

now.

What is virtual refer

Ann Viles defines it as, ''the

electronic mediation between a user

ence?

needing

to a

an answer

question

and

the information that will lead to the

eShare's
that

are

NetAgent and LivePerson

by large companies like

used

Sprint, AOL

or

1-800-Flowers to extend

chat services to

via the

consumers

Below is

snapshot of one
University of

Florida's interactive reference service,

RefeXpress.

Web.

If computer expertise is an is
sue, many vendors offer you the option
of outsourcing the chat service. Virtual

Besides

being

fun way to convey

an ideal me

library services, chat is

dium for

Web pages, but the use of chat for

virtual consultations with library users.

Reference Desk from LSSI (Library

Systems & Services) goes the farthest
in offering either a chat space that your
own librarians can staff or a completely

sources

What is chat?

outsourced reference service that

These

includes LSSI staff to

In this case, the electronic

mediation is not email reference and

answer."

a screen

chat session in the

reaching out to remote users

are working with library

that

or users

databases, web pages

outside of the

users

or

other

re

library building.

could be students work

type of computer sys

tem that allows users to logon and talk

tions.

ing in a computer lab next door to the

library or at home, or they could be

to other users in real-time.

But before

and

Chat refers to

ent from

It is differ

email, which sits in

inbox

an

somewhere until each message is

read and deleted. Chat is synchro
and communication is instanta

nous

Messages pass between the

group of people logged on to the chat
service at that particular moment. The
neous.

online

dictionary Netlingo

offers

good

definition:

answer

ques

located in another country. With

using library re
sources outside the physical confines
of the library, this technology allows

web.uflib.ufl.edu/hss/ref/chat/cc3.html>

Chat doesn't

lists libraries that offer chat services.

Another

up their modem connection to tele

phone a librarian for help; in the case

services is

of the software programs that I'm

LiveRef.htm>.

web browser window,

connect to the library's chat service

registry of virtual reference

LiveRef(sm), <http://www.
public.iastate.edu/-CYBERSTACKS/

commu

nication that allows you to have real

time conversations with others on
your computer. Chatting on the
Internet can take place via Web
pages in

places

rooms or on

way, when

known

as

chat

IRC channels. Either

participating

in

chat

discussion, your messages

instantaneously relayed

are

to other

members and their messages

instantaneously relayed

are

to you.

What does

virtual reference

ter look like?

Chat

the conversations

rooms can

and seek

can

on

while

help

they

their research.

the librarian

on

continue to

This enables

the other end to

having

the

user

follow

are

several directions that

library

can

take to start

ence

ies

service

are

using

ICO software

using

chat.

Librarians

computer.

route users to the

or

MOO

Some librar

started with

Oriented)
University of Florida, while others
are using Web-based chat software.
The software options include Open
Source Software or freeware, which is
at the

free software that you can install, tweak

and program yourself to a variety of

inexpensive
as
can

Web-based software such

ConferenceRoom.
afford it, there

are

messaging programs

sources

very quickly. It's much easier to type in

an U RL in the chat window and hit the

key

to send it to the user than it is

to read it to a user in a

phone

call.

on

page 11

...

virtual refer

(MUD Object

as we

also

can

appropriate

telnet based IRC and

software

repli

they need by
along on their

continued

There

simply

how to find whatever

user

enter

more

article, "Chat Software".

users can

give

cate the user's situation or to teach the

own

progress very

user to

a new

work

lively

require the

discuss,

to

be

Diane Luckevich offers

in her

needs for assistance and instruction.

encoun

swiftly. One feature to look for when

choosing software is the ability to limit
logons to your interactive reference
service.

librarians to better meet remote users'

going

places, with rapid-fire conversations

making sentences of text roll continu
ally across the screen. When you get
several people logged on and talking,

tips

more users

open up

chat
A form of interactive online

more

reinventing the wheel, take

some time to explore some of the
ways other libraries are implementing
chat. "A Survey of Online Interactive
Reference Services" at <http://

You
an

"I

say,
error

Mary
You

Mary
You

can't

message.
"Sure!

says,

"What

say,

get
Can

do

How

you

"Are
says,
you
"No.
AOL."

to

Universe.

Academic

help

you
are

you

connecting

the

using

university

Mary

to

the

Internet?"

account

Gatorlink?"

says,

says,

"Look

ufproxy. html
you

getting

say,

many

Mary

keep

mean?"

"That may be
the problem.
"I f
AOL' s
web browser,
use
says,
you
of
the
1 ibrary databases."

Mary
Mary

me?"

says,
are

this

page.

can't

get

to

http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/

"

"It

using

at

you

will

explain

how

to

get

to

the

databases

when

AOL."

For libraries that

sophisticated
such

as

Log of a virtual reference

librarian.)

encounter on

RefeXpress,

as seen

by the

user.

L1RT News,

(Mary

is the

September

2000

By Tracy Hull, tlhull@duke.edu

Linda
At the close of the annual ALA confer
ence, Linda

Chopra began

LlRT's

Vice PresidenVPresident

Elect.

new

her term

as

the next year, Linda will

assist LlRT's President, Alison

During

while

Armstrong,
learning the ropes for
when she becomes president the
following

year.
Vice President

Linda's main duties

are

to

appoint

committee chairs and to

as

each

issues that LlRT members

may have and to share them with the

President or the appropriate commit
tee chair.

By assuming the position of Vice

PresidenVPresident-Elect, Linda
mits herself to the

organization for

fortunate for LlRT that

Linda had dinner with LlRT member

Laura Bottoms at the annual confer
ence

in 1994.

Laura took the opportu

to introduce Linda to LlRT and its

nity

activities after Linda

teaching

on a

regular

expressed

experience for you, the instructor, as

Linda firmly believes that she

well.

often learns
dents

as

as

they

much from her stu

learn from her. She also

stresses that it isn't necessary to

"know it all" in order to teach others

successfully.

basis.
When Linda is not

working,

much of her time

When asked what advice she would

spends

instruction librarian, Linda

said it is important to be prepared,

remodeling projects

give

a new

flexible. It

she

on

various

for her 1920

home, which she shares with her

friend, also named Linda, and Zachary

being open-minded and

often helps to let the stu

while also

her cat.

dents determine the pace and content

of the class and treat this as a learning

continued

on

page 6

...

an

becoming more active in

attending the meetings on
the following day, Linda found herself
immediately assigned to the PR/Mem
bership Committee. If it were not for
Laura's enthusiasm for LlRT, Linda
may never have become so deeply
interest in

ALA. After

:
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I

LIBRARY INSTRUCTION ROUND TABLE

l_

two

Her tenure with LlRT dates back to

was

accepted a newly cre

position of librarian supervisor at
the Lorain Public Library. She made
the switch because the responsibili
ties involved both staff computer train
ing and public instruction, allowing her
to return to what she really loves

r------------------------.
com

more years, in addition to the addi

tional year appointment as the Chair of
the Organizational/Bylaws Committee.

1994. It

In June Linda

ated

LlRT's 14

oversee

committee's progress. She is also

available to listen to any ideas, con
cerns or

Chopra

COMMITTEE VOLUNTEER FORM

If you are interested in serving on a LlRT Committee, please complete this form and
mail it to the Vice-President/President Elect of LlRT:

Library System, 351 Sixth Street, Lorain,OH

(440) 244-7133, Email: Linda.Chopra@lorain.lib.oh.us
<http://diogenes.baylor.edu/Library/LiRT/volform.html>
Linda

Chopra,

Lorain Public

FAX:

44052

Name and Title:

Telephone (Work):

(Home):

FAX:

E-Mail:

Institutional Address:

Home Address:

involved with the roundtable.

Linda started her
school
but

Date of
career as a

high

English teacher and librarian,

soon

realized that she didn't know

how to
her

properly run the library. When

daughter started first-grade, she

returned to school to

earn

Application:

LlRT Committee Preferences:

to indicate order of

with 1

serve as

being

follow your number

__

her M.L.S.

__

was no easy feat considering she

worked full time and raised a family,

This

making a 40-mile commute to

college. After four years of study, she
received her degree and decided to
work solely as a librarian. Once her
daughter became a teenager, Linda
took a job at the local public library and
eventually was put in charge of the
library's computer center. It was at this
point in her career that she really be
gan to use her teaching skills again.

__

__

while

LlRT News,

September 2000

(Use the numbers 1-9

preferred. If you are willing to
preference with the letter "R")

the most

Newsletter

Adult Learners

Computer Applications
Conference Programs
Continuing Education

__

__

__

Can you
ences?

L1RT, ALA

or

attend LlRT

YES

Research
__

meetings

__

Transition from
to

Long-Range Planning

regularly
__

Please attach

Liaison

Organizational/Bylaws
PRlMembership
Publications

Elections/Nominations
__

preference,

recorder for this group,

High

School

College

at the ALA midwinter and annual confer-

NO

a separate sheet listing committees or offices (if any) previously

stateiregional associations, with years of service.

held in

Nominations requested
for LI RT Officers '011'02
seeking nominations for
by-laws stipulate that

LlRT is
nees

three

for office must be selected from

different types of libraries on a rotating

Candidates must be current

basis.

members of LlRT and must have served

for at least one year on a committee or' a

task force of the Round Table. The rota
tions for the 2001/2002 election
late that librarians from the

types of libraries

eligible

stipu

following

are

to hold the

offices:

following

Vice-PresidenVPresident Elect
-Academic
Public

-Special,
Secretary
-Any category

or

School

librarian

an
as

Vice-PresidentiPresident-Elect, one year

as President, and an additional year as
The Vice- Treasurer/

serves an one

year term

year commitment to the

Executive Board as Vice-TreasurerlTrea

part of

surer

tary

a two

Elect and Treasurer.

serves an one

The Secre

Library

Virginia

Charlottesville, VA 22904-4710
FAX
Phone:
Email:

tions for the 25th

anniversary.

mendation to the

Steering

in

identifying

Recom

Committee:

help from
publica

LlRT

gina@neflin.org

Incoming Chair for 2000-01 is Carolyn

Frenger from George Washington U.
The committee confirmed

a proposed
Anniversary, "From

theme for the 25th

Chalkboard to Electronics:
Over 25

Instruction

years." The committee dis

cussed the idea of

<http://www.ala.org/acrllnili/

nilihp.html>

in

September. This year

provide partial

LlRT will be able to

support for

some

LlRT members who

into the program and

who indicate on their application that
are

accepted

they need financial assistance. LlRT

will award the scholarships after the
participants for Immersion '01 have
been selected.
The Institute for Information

Literacy

has other program initiatives besides

Immersion. One of these, Community

Partnerships, focuses on building

literacy community partner
ships that include different types of
libraries as well as community groups.
The preconference at ALA in Chicago
was well-attended and generated lots
of discussion and many good ideas.
The Community Partnerships toolkit
<http://lrs.austin.cc.tx.us/staffllnavarro/
CommunityPartnershipslToolkit.html>
provides suggestions on establishing
partnerships. Use this toolkit as you.
forge new relationships for information
literacy in your community.
information

producing

ruler

for the anniversary. One side would be

a ruler, the other would have a timeline
for the past 25 years, highlighting
milestones in instruction.

tion program for distance education

from the ground up.

POB 400710 Newcomb Station

of

guidelines to members to examine,

update and revise 3) Continue wok on
putting together a list of LlRT publica

project of the committee is to

design a series of brochures with tips/
guidelines for developing an instruc

Margutti

University

will send

Project 2) Patience
copy of the publications

A current

Chair, Elections Committee

Clemons

LlRT Publications

web site

Gale Burrow is Past President of LlRT,

Library Instruction

and Coordinator of

year term.

Please send nominations to:

Elizabeth

year. Final discussion of the

Publications Project: 1) Publicize the

one more

Gina Persichini, Chair,

three year commitment as

Executive Board member; one year

as

nominated to be chair for

RESEARCH COMMITTEE

The office of Vice-President/President

Treasurer Elect

was

tions.

Officers must be able to attend all ALA

Midwinter and Annual Conferences for
the duration of their commitments.

Past President.

Patience L. Simmonds, Chair,

pls@psulias.psu.edu
Patience

...

Acceptance into Immersion '01 is

competitive. Information about the
application process will be posted on
the Institute for Information Literacy

PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE

Steering

Requirements

Elect is

continued from page 1

this committee would like

Vice- TreasurerlTreasurer Elect

Other

Immersion '01

continued from page 7

...

nomi

offices. The

COMMITTEE REPORTS

(804) 924-7468
(804) 924-7410
margutti@virginia.edu.

The committee's website with

instruction tutorials has been

library
updated.

All links have been checked and infor

mation will be sent to Billie Peterson to

update

the website.

at the Honnold/Mudd

Library,

Libraries of The Claremont

The

Colleges,

Claremont, CA 91711 .

III
Institute for
tntorrnctton

literacy
Trisha Mileham has been

appointed Chair of the

Transition Committee at Valparaiso University in
Patricia. Mileham@valpo.edu
Gail Egbers is

now

School to

High
Valparaiso,

College

Indiana.

<http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/nilihp.html>

Associate Professor at Pacific Lutheran University in

at the Robert Mortvedt

Tacoma, Washington. She is Instructional/Reference Librarian

Library. egbergl@plu.edu
The LlRT News is online at:
Kwasi Sakodi of Boston
was

10

article, "The Difficult Library atron," which

published in the June 2000 issue of Catholic Library World. sarkodlk@bc.edu

College

wrote an

http://

web.uflib.ufl.edu/instructiLi RTflirt.html

LlRT News,

September

2000

It's easy to install the Conference

Room server, and the Java-based IRC

Virtual Reference
continued from page 8

...

client installs itself on user's comput

ers fairly rapidly. There are numerous

In addition, many chat clients offer

active hyperlinks, so that when a librar

URL in her/his window, it

hyperlink in the

types

in

becomes

click-able

ian

chat window of the

Free software

user.

options include

options

in the

$500

to

This article just briefly touches upon

the wide number of software programs
and hosted services that can be used
to launch a virtual reference service.

Consult Luckevich's article for a truly

comprehensive list of features and

$6,000 range

which include Para Chat and Volano

Chat, both Web-based chat client

issues to consider when

programs. Many offer a hosted

service, such as ichat or the purchase
of chat server software to run yourself.

which chat program is

library and budget!

server

deciding
right for your

server

software that you can download your

self such as MOO and chat software

such

High-end programs

as

NetAgent,

LivePerson and Virtual Reference

bundled with

operating systems or
through Internet portals. MOO Open
Source Software such as Jay's House
Core and enCore eXpress are power
ful programs that require no download

Desk

expensive but offer

powerful options that the

the most

are

flexibility

and

other programs do not. These pro

grams feature statistics keeping, log

ging

of transactions and robot features

ing of a client on the user's part to

logon to the chat room, the ability to

that start the reference interview with

control the number of

user

users, sort of a virtual

When

''triage.''

References:

Holmevik, Jan Rune and Cynthia

Haynes. High Wired: On the
Design, Use, and Theorv of Educa
tional MOOs. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, c1998.

MOOniversity: a Student's Guide

Learning Environments.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

_n __

that

users

can

logs

on, the robot would

logon, a robust built-in database for

programming frequently asked ques

them, tell them that

tions, slides and robots and

ask the

environment

featuring

many
with customized features for
interact with.
as

Free Java

Cup-O Mud are

be with them

virtual

users

applets

sucha

available to create

House Core, while enCore Xpress is

already Web-based. The only thing
basic

required for

of

knowledge

concepts

MOO is

some

High

to be able to install and

Wiredand

using

MOOniversity are
guides to programming

MOO

"John needs
also build

to

then read
see

help finding

some

ticles in FirstSearch."

that

ar

Librarians

can

bases of fre

knowledge
quently asked questions and incorpo
rate PowerPoint presentations into the
chat program, to send or show to
users as needed. The most powerful

ability

to

user.

These

"pushed" pages automatically display

on

and

virtual reference

as a

proceed

diagnostic

can

feature in my view is the

"push" a Web page to a

programming

customize the virtual environment.

excellent

series of

Librarians

the user's computer,

user is

KNOW what the

to Online

librarian would

and

the details of the interview and

to

Web page with a chat window type

interface for the telnet based Jay's

that is

user a

questions.

rooms

shortly

greet

so

that you
at the

seeing

Luckevich, Diana. "Chat Software."

Web
.

Developer's

Virtual

Library.

June 2, 2000. <http://

wdvl. internet. com/Software/Applica
tions/ChaV> March 1, 1998.

NetLingo. <http://www.netlingo.com/>
Viles, Ann. "The Virtual Reference
Interview:

Equivalencies." IFLANET.
Group on Reference
Work Report. April 19, 2000.
<http://www.ifla.orgNiI/dg/dgrw/
dp99-06.htm>. October 13,1999 .
Discussion

other end.

tool.

If

programming

is not

one

of your

strongest assets, AOL Instant Messen

ger, Netscape IRC and Microsoft's
free and easy to install
But one important issue with

NetMeeting
and

run.

these free programs is that the user

needs to download and install a chat
client before

they

can

communicate

with you. Here you run the danger of

deterring users who need a fast an
swer or

feel uncomfortable

software
this is

an

on

their

own

installing

computers. If

issue, try HumanClick's free

hosted service for

sations with

one-on-one conver

users.

HumanClick's

Java client downloads to user's

com

puters very rapidly.

The variety of mid-range products
include the IRC based Conference

Room, available at
LlRT News,

Selected Chat, IRC & MOO Programs

are

as

low at $495.00.

September

2000

AOL Instant

enCore

ConferenceRoom

Xpress (MOO)
<http://lingua.utdallas.edu/encore/>
NetMeeting

<http://www.webrnaster.coml>
Cup-OMud
<http://www.du.org/java/
CupOmud/CupOmud_docs.html>

<http://www.microsoft.comlwindows /
netmeeting/default.asp>
Netscape IRC
<http://home.netscape.coml>

Human Click

Virtual Reference Desk

Messenger
<http://www.aol.com/aimlhome.html>

<http://www.humanclick.coml>
ichat

<http://www.ichat.com>

<http://www.lssi.com/virtual/>

NetAgent
<http://www.eshare.com/>

LivePerson

ParaChat

<http://www.liveperson.com/>
Jay's House Core (MOO)

VolanoChat

<http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/writing/help/

<http://www.parachat.com/
<http://www.volano.com/>

rnoo/ihc/

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how computers are used in
instruction. Promotes the

LIBRARY INSTRUCTION ROUND TABLE

library
use

STANDING COMMITTEES

of

BI and

maintaining
on

L1RT committees and maintains

clearinghouse

files of

prospecti ve
pointees.

computer soft

ware.

committee ap

through it to LIRT members, the

establishment, functions, and dis
task forces.

Plans the

L1RT

L1RT program for the ALA An

nual Conference. Makes arrange
ments

Attends and reports to

Steering Committee and

members about committees within

ALA involved in

speakers, room, hand

activities during the pro

for

outs, and

tion acuvines,

library
a

con

listing of

in

struction-related programs and

meetings at ALA Conferences.

CONTINUING EDUCATION: Conducts re

actual

develops plans,

materials, and directories

ther the education and

to fur

help

meet

the information needs of librarians

engaged

in

user

education.

LONG RANGE PLANNING: Develops

short and long range plans for
LIRT.

Implements planning and

operations for the activities of
LIRT. Chaired by the president
elect.

ELECTION/NoMINATING:

Prepares

fices and maintains records

on

pro
cedures, candidates, and election
results.

Solicits volunteers for

Committee

to

the

Executive

of LIRT and

discussion)

at

the Mid

documents.

lication Guidelines.
for
the

NEWSLETTER: Solicits articles, pre

pares and distributes the LIRT news
letter. The Executive Board of
LIRT

serves as

the Editorial Board

for the LIRT newsletter.

PUBLIC RELATIONS/MEMBERSHIP:
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ties, and promotes membership in
LIRT.

Develops

brochures and

releases to inform members,

and

booth at the Annual Conference.

Solicits ideas

publications and advises as to

appropriate means for publica

tion.

The LIRT newsletter editor

and assistant editor

Recommends

Board,

PUBLICATIONS: Establishes, main

tains, and disseminates LIRT Pub

rec

prospective members, and the

library profession about L1RT
activities. Sponsors an exhibit

ORGANIZATION & BYLAWS: Reviews,

revises, and updates the organiza
tion manual of L1RT.

Maintains the Consti

Bylaws

ommends amendments to those

news

slate of candidates for LIRT of

tution and

instruc

Distributes to

ference attendees

gram.

search and

food and

continuance of committees and

LIAISON:

CONFERENCE PROGRAM:

BITES (meals for in

struction librarians to meet for

winter and Annual conferences.

computers by publishing a bibliog

raphy on computer applications for
for information

Organizes

are

ex-officio

members.

RESEARCH: Identifies, reviews, and

disseminates information about in

depth, state-of-the-art research

concerning library instruction for
all types of libraries. Pinpoints
areas where further investigation
about library instruction is needed
with a view toward the develop
ment of research proposals.
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new

committees:

ADULT lEARNERS and TRANSITION

HiGH ScHOOL TO COLLEGE

FROM

are for 2 years.

Appointments begin at the close of the annual conference and continue through the close of the annual
in two years.
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or see
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