ABSTRACT
A range of approaches is being taken towards developing music information skills at the University of Reading. This chapter explores planning of teaching, formal delivery of sessions at different academic levels and informal methods of developing information skills. Like most academic institutions, the University of Reading has an information skills group which was initially set up to examine the range of information skills activities across the library, promote best practice, share ideas and resources, and plan new approaches to information skills delivery. The key to a successful information skills programme for students lies in convincing academic colleagues of the importance of information skills. Drop-in sessions and tutorials, if adequately promoted, are a proactive way of ensuring students with information skills needs have an alternative to the classroom-based learning which ‘user education’ has traditionally been about. The value of using an enquiry to develop a user’s information skills should not be forgotten.
