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Author
Pacey, P.
Title
Teaching user education, learning information skills; or, towards the self explanatory library
Source
The new review of academic librarianship. 1995, no.1, S.95-103
Year
1995
Abstract
The concept of user education as it was developed in UK polytechnic libraries in the 1970s - that is, library and bibliographic skills taught by a librarian, and at its worst resembling a micro course in librarianship - is dead, and, with hindsight, can be seen to have been misconceived. Suggests that in future, much of the time and money that has been devoted to user education should be invested instead in putting into practice the concept of the self explanatory library and in reintegrating information skills with the curriculum

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