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"Instruction for First-Year Students" is the theme of this year's ACRL Instruction Section program, being held on Sunday, July 9, 2000, from 2:00-4:30pm at the Marriott Downtown Grand Ballroom II (7th floor).First-year college students are often net-savvy and graphically oriented, and more likely to have shorter attention spans. Students are also coming to campus with differing levels of technological expertise. Are instruction librarians teaching first-year students in the best way possible?
Sponsored by the ALA/ACRL Instruction Section and cosponsored by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), this program will explore characteristics of these students, survey what they are learning about information resources and strategies in high school, and investigate programmatic innovations at the institutional and library levels that meet first-year students' needs.
Speakers include Randy Burke Hensley, Public Services Division Head, University of Hawaii at Manoa Libraries, Frances Jacobson, University High School Librarian, University Laboratory High School, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Margit Misangyi Watts, Director Rainbow Advantage/Freshman Seminar Programs, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
More information is available on the program web site: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/is/conference/index.html