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This article reports the results of a survey that targeted reference and instruction librarians who work at libraries that are members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Respondents were asked to indicate whether or not they teach students to use the one-box tool, and why or why not. Based on the responses of the 352 librarians who participated in the study, the researchers found that most reference and instruction librarians at ARL libraries are "teaching outside the box."he homepages of many academic libraries' websites have Google-like search boxes that allow researchers to search more than one electronic resource at a time. Regardless of the technology behind them (federated search, metasearch, broadcast search, web-scale discovery, and the like), these "one-box" search tools have generated much philosophical discussion, both pro and con, in the library profession. The debate has been well-documented and summarized in the literature.

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