ABSTRACT
Students are often taken on a tour of the library as part of their introduction to college. Such a tour can be helpful in familiarising them with the layout of the library, introducing them to library staff and giving them a sense of the variety of resources available. But it needs to be followed up with an activity which helps them to be efficient users of the library. This chapter presents an exercise that is designed to ensure that students use the correct internet sites to benefit their study. The internet not only provides a huge wealth of information, but, unlike the library, students can access it anywhere. Thus, the more familiar they are with the relevant websites, the more effective they will be at learning from home. Students frequently find that the book which they have been recommended to read is not in the library. This can be enough to make them abandon all attempts to study that topic.
