Papers presented at a conference held at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

One little conference and how it grew : an introduction / Cheryl LaGuardia -- The upside of downsizing : using the economic crisis to restructure and revitalize academic libraries / Carla Stoffle -- Alternative models for instruction in the academic library : another view of the upside of downsizing / Janice Simmons-Welburn -- On beyond Bill comma Buffalo : maximum value, minimum resources, and "good-enoughness" / Barbara Quint -- Overcoming mazes and minotaurs : achieving user independence in the academic library labyrinth / Ann Coder and Margie Smith -- Public service strategies for minimizing library anxiety / Sherry DeDecker with Lynn Westbrook -- Peer information counselors : experienced students assist librarians in extending bibliographic instruction programs / Karen Downing -- Burrowing into BI : the care and feeding of a library gopher / Andrea L. Duda -- Toward innovative instructional options for the 1990's : a process of strategic collaboration in the science/technology libraries of Harvard University / Donald G. Frank -- Everyone in the pool : staying afloat with a good BI team / Polly P. Frank and Lee-Allison Levene -- Teaching future librarians to teach / Esther Grassian and Joan Kaplowitz -- BI and collaborative learning : a partnership in library literacy / Michele G. Hanson -- Teaching the use of the Internet in a traditional library instruction program / Tony Harvell -- Information literacy : for the privileged only? / Lana W. Jackman and Patricia Payne -- Bringing in the reserves : generating confident and skillful new instructors / Trudi E. Jacobson and David A. Tyckoson -- Teaching, learning, and technostress / John Kupersmith -- Diversity and diversifying in a downsized library / Christine K. Oka ... [et al.] -- Successful research using The Gateway to Information : meeting the challenge of user independence / Fred Roecker -- Managing the three-ring circus : a case study of collaborative teaching and learning in the large lecture format / Deborah Petersen-Perlman and Marilyn Russell-Bogle -- I'm coping as fast as I can : instructing the instructor at Boston University / J. Christina Smith and Andrea Weinschenk -- KAPOW : the impact of CD-ROMs on bibliographic instruction / Joan H. Worley -- Conference summary / Joseph Boisse and Carla Stoffle.