User Education Programme in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester: A Case Study

Bhatti, Rubina User Education Programme in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester: A Case Study. Pakistan Journal of Library & Information Science, 2007, vol. 2007, n. 8, pp. 49-62. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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The paper reports a case study which was conducted during the doctoral research by the author. It aimed to find out the relevance of user education programme in academic libraries to the teaching and learning process. Data for the study was collected through the questionnaires, interviews with the library user-education specialists, other library staff, students and faculty. The multidisciplinary approach was applied to investigate the library’s activities in providing user education to new students. It emerged from the findings that for students to become truly information literate, the best way is to integrate the user education programmes into the university’s core curriculum.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: User education; Informat on literacy; University libraries
Subjects: C. Users, literacy and reading. > CD. User training, promotion, activities, education.
Depositing user: Maqsood Shaheen
Date deposited: 26 Sep 2007
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:09
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/10440

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