The Triumph of Expediency: The Impact of Google Scholar on Library Instruction

摘要: SUMMARY Offering expediently delivered, serviceable results, Google Scholar is gaining increasing recognition and acceptance in academia. Inasmuch as it rivals competes with traditional library resources such proprietary subscription databases, poised to alter how research conducted. In so doing, poses both challenges opportunities for those providing bibliographic instruction. This paper assesses the virtues drawbacks of a tool concludes that, absence viable alternative, instructional librarians must come terms it.