ABSTRACT
Most MDV curricula include some form of information skills training, but this training is often divorced from subject teaching and the skills acquired are seen more as transferable skills, since much of this teaching is carried out by librarians and information specialists, who may be perceived as ancillary to the main teaching process. This perception is not often lost on the students themselves who may consider such sessions peripheral to their studies, and consequently pay less attention to the importance of information skills. Often sessions are scheduled at the beginning of courses during the orientation or induction period, a period when students are not fully engaged in their course. The result is that when students do need to use their information skills, they may well have forgotten much of what they learnt earlier, if indeed any effective learning took place at all!
