A new report from Primary Research Group is particularly noteworthy for the picture of library instruction that it paints. The report, "College Information Literacy Efforts Benchmarks," was released just last week and appears to confirm that, yes, librarians are being asked to provide more instruction. Among the researchers' key findings:

- The mean percentage change in the number of classes or presentations provided by academic libraries between fall 2006 and fall 2007 was +20.26%

- Business, psychology, sociology, education and English were commonly listed as one of the top three academic departments requesting library instruction

- Librarians surveyed estimated that nearly one-quarter (23.5%) of their students had not taken any formal IL training and knew just a few essentials of Boolean searching (such as using quotation marks, "or", and "and")

For more information from the report, see Primary Research Group's press release online here.