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Videocassettes Available

“Faculty Views on Library Instruction,” a panel which was among the highlights of the fifth annual Conference on Library Orientation held May 15-17, 1975, at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, is now available on color videocassettes (two reels) and is being distributed by the Association of College and Research Libraries as part of its program of making excellent audiovisual programs available to librarians and educators.

The annual conferences on library orientation, sponsored by EMU’s Center of Educational Resources, are an outgrowth of a Council on Library Resources–NEH library orientation grant.

According to Dr. Fred Blum, director of the Center of Educational Resources, the 100-min- ute program includes individual presentations by each of the panelists, followed by discussion and a question period.

Members of the faculty panel are: Len Clark, philosophy professor at Earlham College; Jeanne Halpern, English instructor at the University of Michigan; William Harvey, biology professor at Earlham College; and Charles Middleton, history professor at the University of Colorado. Panel moderator is Hannelore Rader, orientation librarian at Eastern Michigan University.

The panel members address themselves to problems confronting library users (both students and faculty) in academic libraries, ways of improving library utilization, and the effects of changing trends in education on library instruction. They illustrate their comments with numerous examples from their personal experiences with libraries and library instruction.

The videocassettes can be shown on any 3/4- inch videocassette U–Matic player. Requests for borrowing the tape should be made on standard interlibrary loan request forms and addressed to the ALA Headquarters Library, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ■ ■

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