Educating the Data User: the Data Archivist and Bibliographic Instruction

Information specialists have long been aware that graduates usually leave academia with onh a rudimentary knowledge of information strategies and resources. The expansion of information access opportunities has not changed this situation radically. In the area of information about public data sources, the gap between what students know and what they could know, is tremendous. At Baruch, this problem is particularly important because there are few areas more dependent on information access and utilization, particularly in machine-readable formats, than business, and few academic disciplines, therefore, in which this "information gap" has greater significance. Since the Librar\' at Baruch College provides