Teaching the New Library to Today's Users Reaching International, Minority, Senior Citizens, Gay/Lesbian, First-Generation, At-Risk, Graduate and Returning Students, and Distance Learners

As student populations become more diverse, the range of teaching methods must expand. Here is both the background and the strategies librarians need to address the learning styles of the new library's diverse users. Each chapter, written by a librarian who has hands-on experience teaching the population about whom they write, provides specifics about cultural contexts and differences, peer mentoring, and motivating techniques. Chapters clearly demonstrate how linguistic, cultural, age, and/or gender differences among student populations actually can result in stronger library instruction development, and more inventive library services.Jacobson, Trudi E. is the author of 'Teaching the New Library to Today's Users Reaching International, Minority, Senior Citizens, Gay/Lesbian, First-Generation, At-Risk, Graduate and Returning Students, and Distance Learners', published 2000 under ISBN 9781555703790 and ISBN 1555703798.