Essential Skills  

Features and Benefits

Contents:  
Unit 1  
Unit 2
Unit 3  
Unit 4

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Key Features

• Role of the library/information unit; your position within it
• Different types of information
• Selecting and acquiring material
• Organising information: what, why and how to organise
• Current awareness services: keeping your users up to date
• Answering enquiries
• Search strategies: how to look for information
• Special information sources
• Introduction to online searching and using CD-ROM
• Practical exercises.

Key Benefits

• Available over the Internet for maximum convenience
• Built in e-mail capabilities for direct contact with your tutor
• Built in facilities for building your own portfolio of work