ABSTRACT
Study skills is an umbrella term for what were once called Library Skills and now Information Skills, such as how to look things up in alphabetical order; using an index and a catalogue; reading titles, side headings and summaries to find out what books are about and so on. The study skills approach includes not only finding the information from libraries and other sources such as the ‘web’ and CD-ROMs but also linking this use to the wider skills of reading, asking questions, and making notes as tools in self-directed learning (Wray 1989).
