Faculty Culture and Bibliographic Instruction: An Exploratory Analysis

ASSTRACT FACULTY IDENTIFIED BY librarians as the key to a successful biblie ARE OFTEN graphic instruction program. Nevertheless, considerable evidence suggests that most faculty have not widely adopted bibliographic instruction in their teaching. This article examines the nature of faculty culture and how certain aspects of it impede bibliographic instruction efforts. Despite attributes of faculty culture that support the development of large libraries, the wide-scale acceptance by faculty of bibliographic instruction has not occurred. Continued initiatives by librarians to understand and to reach out to faculty are essential if academic libraries are to achieve their potential in contributing to the educational process.