1. Tips for Integrating Guide to Reference Into Your Teaching December 3, 2009

2. Overview: What your students need to prepare them for reference work How Guide to Reference makes teaching sources easier How to sign up for free access for you and your students Q&A

3. Overview: Over 16,000 fully annotated entries describing essential print and web reference resources Selected by reference librarians and subject experts

4. Overview: Traces its roots through several editions of Guide to Reference Books back to 1902 and the publication of Kroeger's Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books: A Manual for Librarians, Teachers and Students

5. Changes in reference questions: fewer but harder not readily answerable through Google more require subject or content knowledge

6. With Guide to Reference, your students can: learn specific sources learn the range of sources available compare sources for content and ease of use

7. Other uses of Guide to Reference: staff training reference collection development instruction and workshop pinpoint sources quickly during refQs

8. Big changes in online Guide to Reference: many online sources, both free and licensed fewer bibliographies lesser-used items eliminated; keep your 11 th edition

9. Interactive features: Add Personal or Global Notes enhance the annotations compare sources promote your favorites

10. Interactive features: Create Global or Personal Lists link sources for a class project link sources useful for particular types of questions create your own mini-Guide

11. LIS Usage Overview: A lot of interest in free LIS access 49 institutions with LIS schools have asked about free LIS access 44 have set up free LIS access

12. LIS Ways to Access: 3 institutions are providing free LIS access through Blackboard Many more are using institutional and individual trial accounts for free LIS access

13. LIS Faculty Use: 23 LIS faculty have self-identified as using free LIS access All of them are using Guide to Reference for reference and collection development courses, introductory and advanced

14. Free LIS Access vs. Subscription: 22 institutions using free LIS access are also subscribers to Guide to Reference 10 institutions with free LIS access are considering a subscription 3 institutions decided to subscribe after using free LIS access

15. Setting up free LIS access to Guide to Reference is easy! Contact us at… guidetoreference@ala.org

16. Questions about Guide to Reference? Future webinar topics to suggest? Contact us at… guidetoreference@ala.org

17. Sign up to use Guide to Reference for free in your LIS course: www.guidetoreference.org and click the For LIS Programs button -or- guidetoreference@ala.org