The library has been developing a number of "Information Literacy" online tutorials for students.  Two major projects have been developed: One for the Nursing Department that has integrated library research skills across-the-curriculum and one for the English Department to help students in Freshmen English courses learn about the online catalog, periodical indexes, search strategy and evaluating information. 

The instructional librarians are interested in working with other departments.  The goal is to develop similar projects that can be customized for a particular course or department.

A number of new services have been developed for faculty including:

	email a reference librarian (get a quick answer to a question)
	set up consultation meeting with reference librarian
	an online suggestions box
	book suggestions outside one's subject area
	online resource guides on Business, Univercity, and Life on the Color Line

Tomorrow the library is planning:

	more online full-text information  on electronic databases
	develop a site for answers to questions frequently asked in the library
	more electronic databases
	continued rapid growth of online government publications

User Services now permits 

	viewing of a personal list of materials that are checked out, including due dates
	recalling and renewing materials online,
	signing-up to receive online notices of upcoming due dates of checked-out materials,
	viewing electronic reserves,
	routing interlibrary loan requests placed electronically from the FirstSearch databases directly to other institutions (speeding up the process)

In the future, 

	for more convenience, recalling materials will be added directly to WebCat,
	Interlibrary loans will be made direct to other institutions (speeding up the process),
	online form will be available for requesting information from remote storage,
	online form for placing materials on reserve, and
	online form for reserving a study room

WebCat has been adapted to provide many services for BSU

In the future:

	improve user friendliness of WebCat
	have more access to digital images, video, and audio (e.g., Netlibrary and Hyperion)

Adding a list server so that notifications could go out to make BSU community members (who are interested) aware of new capabilities as they become available