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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.

Each chapter, written by a librarian who has hands-on experience teaching the population about which they write, provides specifics about cultural contexts and differences, peer mentoring, and motivating techniques.
Sections cover international students; multicultural and gender issues; first-generation college students and at-risk students; re-entry, graduate, and seasoned students; and the needs of distance learners. 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. Designed to assist practicing librarians in the academic and public library settings in their day-to-day teaching and to help library school students prepare for the demands of an evolving profession.