id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
crl-15573	Marcus, Sandra; Beck, Sheila	A Library Adventure: Comparing a Treasure Hunt with a Traditional Freshman Orientation Tour	2003-01-01	22	.pdf	application/pdf	9044	525	66	In general, researchers found tours to be a predominant method of introduc­ ing students to the library’s physical plant, services, and personnel.11–14 How­ ever, in 1965, Barbara Phipps studied two hundred libraries and reached the con­ clusion that library tours are effective in orientating students to the physical plant and ineffective in teaching library use.15 He recommended three ways to measure the impact of library tours; pretests and posttests on information re­ flecting educational objectives, student opinion surveys, and the measurement and evaluation of repeated questions at the reference desk.30 Although the authors found the use of a pretest unfeasible in the current study, they attempted to in­ clude a quantitative aspect to their tour http:tours.29 http:lectures.25 http:instruction.24 http:students.23 http:descriptions.22 http:skills.20 A Library Adventure 27 evaluations by combining a posttest and a student opinion survey in a question­ naire.	cache/crl-15573.pdf	txt/crl-15573.txt