Empowering the Information User: New Ways Into User Education
Library Association Publishing, 1998 - Information retrieval - 76 pages
Most librarians and information professionals find themselves involved in teaching information skills to users. Few have been prepared for it through their professional education which leaves many new librarians thrown in at the deep end with little or no training in this area.
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Who are these people? Identifying user groups and their needs
What do you want the users to achieve? Analysing and devising
What is going to be in the scheme? Designing the content
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