ABSTRACT
Making a difference (Department of Health 1999), the Government strategy to raise standards in nursing, midwifery and health visiting called for, amongst other things, a more flexible approach to the education of nurses – for example, the implementation of problem-based and enquiry-based learning as possible ways forward. This in turn prompted the University Health Sciences Librarians (2001) to develop a strategy for the support of, and resource provision for, any such new direction in nurse education by library and information services. Since student-centred learning is, by definition, diametrically opposed to teacher-centred learning it follows that the optimal library service for each will also be very different.
