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PARTNERSHIPS AND CONNECTIONS: Building faculty-librarian partnerships to prepare students for information fluency: The time for sharing information expertise is now

This article traces 30 years of library instruction innovation, including the creation of the first conference on Library Orientation at Eastern Michigan University in 1971 and the LOEX (Library Orientation Exchange) Clearinghouse, both of which continue to this day. Particular attention is paid to information literacy project activities in the national and international environments.

Presents a summary review of 25 years of the literature on user instruction and information literacy. Notes how developments in education and technology during the last ten years have affected user instruction and have led to the emergence of information literacy. Demonstrates how the field of user instruction has expanded. A total of 28 publications were reviewed in 1973, and 286 publications were reviewed in 1998 ± 25 years later. The title of the literature review changed over the same period from`L ibrary Orientation and Instruction'' to``Library Instruction and Information Literacy''.