ABSTRACT

This chapter examines how the initial expectations changed through the enquiry into students' habits. It also examines the information which emerged from this enquiry, and, finally, describes the implications for future faculty/librarian co-operation. A little systematic instruction would start students in the right methods, that for the rest of their lives all their work in libraries would be more expeditiously accomplished. The numbers of students attending such tours has remained quite substantial even though many first year courses are based on substantial and detailed reading lists which require very little in the way of detailed knowledge of the working of the library. Contact with students on such tours confirmed a general common-sense view that individual students can have very different ideas about what they hope to achieve at university. The academic perspective on how students would set about information gathering seemed to incorporate the following points — gleaned from a series of informal discussions.