Preface: Drawing on the past, in the present, to shape the future of the first-year experience in American higher education / John N. Gardner & Andrew K. Koch -- Introduction / Larry L. Hardesty -- Recent history and definition of information literacy standards and future directions / Thomas G. Kirk, Jr. -- Engaging students in the first college year : why academic librarians matter / George D. Kuh, Polly D. Boruff-Jones & Amy E. Mark -- How first-year college students use their time : implications for library and information literacy instruction / Leticia Oseguera -- Models of library instruction for first-year students / Debbie Malone & Carol Videon -- The library and first-year seminars : in-depth analysis of a 2001 national study / Colleen Boff & Kristin Johnson -- Information literacy and the first-year experience in the California State University System / Ilene F. Rockman -- Librarians with a first-year focus : exploring an emerging position / Colleen Boff, Cheryl Albrecht & Alison Armstrong -- Strategies for designing assignments to support information literacy initiatives / Larry L. Hardesty -- Engaging first-year students : developing library-related cocurricular activities that impact and empower students / Ellysa Stern Cahoy & Loanne Snavely -- Assessing library instruction in the first college year / Robert Fitzpatrick & Randy L. Swing -- Research on student retention and implications for library involvement / Cindy Pierard & Kathryn Graves -- The convergence of information literacy and the first-year experience : looking to the future / Larry L. Hardesty -- The library and the first-year experience over time at Dickinson College / Christine Bombaro & John C. Stachacz -- Collaborative curriculum building at Millikin University : the critical role of faculty/library collaboration / Susan Avery & Nancy DeJoy -- Transformations : library/faculty collaboration in first-year programs at IUPUI / William A. Orme & Barbara D. Jackson -- Librarians as change agents : the evolution of a first-year information fluency program at a small liberal arts college / Teresa Fishel, Beth Hillemann & Jean Beccone -- Developing a first-year information literacy program : the contexts and challenges of change / Randall Schroeder & Judith Griffith -- Integrating information literacy into a discipline-specific course in the first year : a case study of Sociology 101 / Kathy S. Kremer & Karen Shostrom Lehmann -- Reducing library anxiety through career explorations at Eastern Kentucky / Linda Klein -- Using Web-based instruction guides to teach information literacy concepts to first-year students at Grinnell College / Catherine Rod & Rebecca Stuhr -- Emergence/emergency? : the Earlham Libraries and the first-year experience / Neal Baker & Thomas G. Kirk, Jr. -- Librarians in the wired classroom : the Seton Hall University experience / Mary McAleer Balkun, Beth Bloom & Marta Mestrovic Deyrup -- The development and management of the online information literacy tutorial at the HKUST Library / Sam Chu -- Preparing pathways to information literacy : combining research, technology, and core college competencies for select first-year students / Joan Campbell, Corrine Taylor & Pattie Orr -- A common grading rubric : evolution of library assignments for an orientation course / Janice Hovis & Diane Savoca -- Appendix A: Information literacy competency standards for higher education / Association of College and Research Libraries -- Appendix B: Objectives for information literacy instruction : a model statement for academic librarians / Association of College and Research Libraries.