Library

The proposed guidelines are intended to promote student-oriented bibliographic instruction program on college campuses. We hope the guidelines will suggest opportunities for faculty, librarians, and professional associations to collaborate in developing materials and programs that will help students learn to make effective use of library resources. We also hope that the proposedguidelines will be further developed by nujor professional associations. We believe that the guidelines, backed by professional associations, will en-courage the development of meaningful bibliographic instruction programs in college and research libraries. In 1988, the Standards Task Force of the New England Bibliographic Instruction Committee identified and col-lected guidelines for instruction in literature and informa-tion retrieval published by professional associations. The American Chemical Society (ACS, 1983) guidelines fo