STUDENT USE OF LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDES FOLLOWING LIBRARY INSTRUCTION

Librarians commonly provide students who attend one-shot library instruction sessions with research guides they can refer to once class is over. These guides, whether paper or electronic, serve to remind students of key points and resources addressed during the session. It is unclear, though, if and how students refer to these guides once leaving the classroom. In this article the author reports on the results of two focus groups made up of students who attended a basic library instruction session as part of a survey art course. The students discussed how they used paper and electronic research guides, and also what they would like research guides to provide.