CHECK THESE OUT!

Ring, Donna M. and Patricia F. VanderMeer. "Designing a computerized Instructional Training Room for the Library." Special Libraries 85 (Summer 1994): 154-161.

Librarians planning an electronic classroom/training room will want to read this well organized summary of things to think about. Included are room arrangement, lighting, climate, wiring, acoustics, furniture, hardware and software.

School Library Reference Services in the 90s: Where We Are, Where We're Heading. New York: Haworth, 1994. (also published as issue 44 of The Reference Librarian)

School librarians will want to look at this 1994 publication if they missed it last year. In it are a number of useful articles about library instruction.

The last two articles described below were prepared for an audience of academic librarians. However, both raise issues about library service and library instruction worth pondering by all library professionals, even while sunbathing on the beach!

Alberico, Ralph. "Serving College Students in an Era of Recombinant Information." Wilson Library Bulletin 69 (March 1995): 29-32, 119.

Alberico discusses the new information environment and changing library collections and services, including instruction. In the first section, he talks about the movement of library services to a "mixed mode based on access and a local collection" (p. 29), the computer as a communication device, and the dynamic nature of electronic information, issues important to all of us. The last section describes ways staff at the Undergraduate Library at the University of Texas at Austin are harnessing new technologies to provide service.

Rettig, James. "The Convergence of the Twain or Titanic Collision? BI and Reference in the 1990's Sea of Change." RSR 23:1 (1995): 7-20.