The Information Skills section will look at the following:

Infoskills • Branch co-ordinators role – planning and promotion • Endnote help • Gaming • Gateways • Generic • IAP and AusAid • Imbedded, tailored • International visitors • Leadership • One size not for all • Online • Orientation • Presentations supplemented with webpages on how to find info • Rapid • Special week activities – Graduate Week • Subject guides • Training in hospital wards • What are we achieving?

Documents and other information on Information Skills

Thomas Mann I thought the attached paper was interesting. Thomas Mann is an eminent reference librarian at the Library of Congress. He has long argued the importance of reference librarians in the research process. This recent paper deals (among other things) with the need to teach library skills to researchers.

Pages 32 to 38 deal specifically with infoskill teaching. I like the comment "I’ve sometimes had experiences with undergraduate classes in which no one took any notes at all until I gave everyone my e-mail address."

Thomas Mann (PDF) John East