Festschrift --> Happy Goodbye Letters - Pete

Heh, our "repository" is/will be called The Digital Archives of Colorado College. - Your Neighbor Steve

Serials/Periodicals --> Magazines and Journals (bonus: links the concept of "journals" with "magazines" in the user's mind, establishes that in this context, "journal" /= "diary") - Catherine Pellegrino

Except that "manuscripts" is also confusing, Dorothea. Maybe "special collections --> archives and rare books"? - Rollin' in the LB

If you don't know what a manuscript is, you don't need it. - Your Neighbor Steve

Really, if in a university environment 'manuscript' is confusing, library terminology change isn't the cure for what ails you. - Pete

Or you don't know you need it. I would venture to guess our students don't know "manuscript." They seem to comprehend "archives," though. I've gotten calls from people who thought "special collections" had to do with paying fines. - Rollin' in the LB

Library instruction --> Information skills --> ?? - Pete

("Information" is the most jargon-y word we've got, really, because it SEEMS perfectly obvious but actually means something pretty specific.) - lris

We went for 'Books 'n' Shit' Well, we should have ;) But we felt management wouldn't got for it. - Pete

There are several flavors of "Library Instruction" - I call my "BI/LI/IL sessions" by several different names: "Course Guides" "Library Orienteering" "Tips, Tricks & Sekrets" "Research Tools to Save You Time" "Things You'll Wish You Knew If You Skip" etc. - awd

Reference --> look it up; article databases ---> big lists of articles that sometimes actually include the articles - marthalib

Martha, I love that one for "article databases." Bwahaha! - Rollin' in the LB

See, as far as I can tell from faculty response, "Library Instruction" works on our campus. I'm instructing students on how to use the library. They get that. (Sadly, that's basically what I do: we have yet to crack the bigger-picture IL skills here.) - Catherine Pellegrino

more on the library instruction focus -- whenever I'm asked to do a BI/LI/IL session I always *immedeately* reply with the following boilerplate: "I am happy to do this for you. I need the following to best serve you and your students: 1. an overview of assignments due in the next two weeks and, 2. a copy of the major term assignment. I will tailor the session to resources which will best get your students to relevant information for these assignments. If you have specific suggestions for resources which you find helpful or expect your students to use, please include them in your response. Thank you!" - awd

1) databases => search tools 2) library instruction => research (skills) instruction (or research @ the library) 3) subject guides => resources by subject - Dana Longley

"subject portal" -> "subject guide". Backed by usability testing at MPOW. - Deborah Fitchett

when I worked in the law firm library, we stopped calling it "training" and called it something like "skills sessions". Lawyers don't tend to sign up for training, since they already know everything. ;-) - Connie Crosby