This book is short, but for me, it was a very dense read. There was so much information I found helpful. Some schools have freshman writing programs in which librarians work with faculty to integrate research into the semester-long or year-long curriculum. The "one-shot", when a librarian visits a class for 45 minutes or an hour to teach them how to find and use library resources is much more common. I suspect it serves some students adequately and is quite useless to others. This book is about finding ways to improve and expand the usefulness of the "one-shot." The book opens by considering the "one shot," the single instructional session many librarians give to classes (often freshman writing classes). I've done these, and suspected that their usefulness was limited, for a number of reasons. One of the pieces of the information I gained was confirmation of how ineffective the one-shot can be. I'd suspected this, and worried about it,...