Damn it. This professor always has every student in his class send me their paper topics. I don't know what he thinks I'm supposed to do with them.
tailor your instruction so it hits resources they'll need? provide a pool from which you can pull example searches? Force them to e-mail you at least once so they can't say they don't know who you are/how to find you? - Christina Pikas
Yeah, some combination of those. :) It just makes me cranky, especially today. - Jason P
I recall having some librarians ask me for all of the topics back when I was teaching comp. maybe someone trained him up for you? - Katy S