Abstract:

This paper studied on the development of the American academic library instruction, divided it into early period,struggle for acceptance period,revival period,development period,improvement and innovationperiod.Summarized and analyzed the roles of the main effects of the key figures,major events and ideas.Represented the five movement phases:the professor of bibliography movement,librarycollege movement,bibliography instruction movement,information literacy movement,courseintegrated instruction movement.

Key words: American, Academic library, Library instruction, Course-integrated instruction, Embeded library instruction