ABSTRACT
A major focus in library instruction today is on programs that build on progressively more sophisticated library expertise and advanced research strategies unique to a particular discipline or needed to conduct interdisciplinary research. The growing complexity of library collections, services, operations, and new technologies requires a myriad of expertise never before required of library users, librarians, and other educators. Administrators of library user education programs and librarianteachers in these programs must work together to ensure a directed, but visionary library instruction program. New technologies, particularly computer-based online searching, have forced radical changes in the way literature searches are conducted, in speeding up retrieval and delivery of information, and in provision of library instruction. Rao Aluri’s article demonstrates that software programs are available that can greatly enhance manipulation of data information retrieved via “downloading.”.
