ABSTRACT
Current reports and publications from government agencies and professional organizations emphasize the changing populations entering higher education programs. Predictions indicate the current majority of traditional college students—those students entering immediately after high school, attending full time, and being between the ages of 17 and 22—will be in the minority by the year 2000. In addition, college and university programs are becoming more diverse and new programs are continually developing. This is most evident in the numbers of new specialized journals that appear each year. As libraries are developing and maintaining bibliographic instruction programs, the balance of meeting the needs of newly identified user groups as well as newly developing programs becomes more of a challenge.
In this brief article, I suggest fifteen alternatives that can be used to assist some our new users and new disciplines. This list is to be considered a beginning point, and needs to be adapted to the unique and individual characteristics of each campus community.
The fifteen ways are organized in three broad groups: before the users enter the campus; entering the library building; and outreach on campus.
