Information skills training in support of a joint electronic libraiy in Glasgow: the GAELS Project approach to libraiy courseware development

Joint, Nick Kemp, Bob

Aslib proceedings 2000 52 (8)277-276
(ReLIS:jul:onkfhj:y:2000:v:52:i:8:p:277-276)

Abstract:

The GAELS Project is a two-year project funded by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC) strategic change initiative, which prornotes collaborative information services to engineering researchers at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities. This paper examines the role of user education in this process. We use argurnents against the effectiveness of library skills education and evaluative methods learned frorn humancomputer interface design as a rneans of irnproving information skills training and as part of a general reflection on user education and library services. Such an approach

Keywords: Bibliotecas digitales ; Enseñanza a distancia
Pages: 277-276
Volume: 52
Year: 2000
Issue: 8

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