ABSTRACT
And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns
for exactly the same reason. (Pratchett, 1994, Interesting Times)
Once you discover that all the notes you made so conscientiously are completely unintelligible, or you did not quite make it to a lecture, getting to know the library might be a good idea. Inconveniently, GEES students fi nd texts in many parts of the library. Geoscientists are likely to be heading to law, physics and engineering, geographers need books from agriculture, sociology, law, politics and civil engineering, and so do environmental scientists. This usually means books are in many locations and sometimes in different buildings. Then there are all the electronic resources. You can fi nd e-books and access libraries internationally. Great fun – and potentially a good way to waste time. There is a maze of information, but fi nding the way around is not always obvious, but you CAN DO THIS. Skills you will draw on include researching, evaluation, information literacy, information retrieval, IT, fl exible thinking and scheduling.
