Library use instruction is seen by most librarians in Britain and the United States to be an essential component of an academic library's overall operation, with the expressed or implied aim of enabling students to achieve maximum utilization of library resources and services. Having passed through a long history of cyclical popularity dating back to before the turn of the century, library instruction enjoyed a period of renewed popularity in the early seventies. Presently many writers believe that academic libraries are failing in their function of facilitating access to stored knowledge. The challenge of education library users, however, has generated a multiplicity of instructional approaches in both nations. These approaches include handbooks, leaflets on specific resources, specialized bibliographies, audiovisual presentations, orientation tours, and informal courses; the slide/tape presentation is one of the more popular types of media used. Sixty references are cited. (Author/RAA)