Passing the halfway mark - LIS curricula incorporating user education courses

Many library and information studies (LIS) programs in the United States of fer different courses to prepare students for an increasingly educational r ole. Studies from 1974 through 1996 indicate a gradual rise in the number o f courses offered in the areas of bibliographic instruction, information li teracy, and user education. Most of these studies were limited by the nonre sponse rates of the surveys used. This study, however, examines the public Web sites of each American Library Association-accredited LIS program in th e United States, finding that, for the first time, over half of the current programs offer full, regularly scheduled courses in user education.