Composition faculty began to devote classroom sessions to library instruction, and accompanied their students to the library. Faculty positioned themselves at a table near the reference desk and acted as a liaison between their students and the reference librarians. As they worked more closely with the librarians serving their students, the faculty became more knowledgeable about library search strategies. This resulted in a better professional relationship between librarians and faculty and in more realistic library research assignments from instructors who began to appreciate the intricacies of using the library. Composition faculty had formerly spent only one class session in the library. Now they conducted more than half their class sessions there. Formulating a grounded theory of library anxiety and examining its underlying causes helped librarians and composition faculty to understand better the problems students encountered in using the library for research. From these observations, a closer cooperation between composition faculty and librarians resulted. This changed both the presentation of library research in beginning com
position classes and the design of the library-instruction program.