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What Would Buffy Do? The Use Of Popular Culture Examples In Undergraduate Library Instruction., Jerilyn Marshall Jan 2002

What Would Buffy Do? The Use Of Popular Culture Examples In Undergraduate Library Instruction., Jerilyn Marshall

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This paper presents results of a survey that gathered information on the use of popular culture examples in college library instruction sessions; including the types of popular culture materials currently being used as examples; the types of courses in which they are used; the librarians' purposes in using the examples; and the librarians' impressions of whether or not the examples had an effect on the success of the session. A call for participation in the survey was distributed through two online discussion lists; BI-L and LIBREF-L during December 2001. Librarians working at the University of Northern Iowa were also invited …