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Library instruction, individualised learning and independent learnings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Frank Hatt*
Affiliation:
Bulmershe College of High Education, Reading, Berks
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Abstract

Within higher education courses are being designed which emphasise the acquisition of learning skills rather than the absorption of ‘blocks’ of subject knowledge. Such courses indicate the way in which library-based learning skills can be developed alongside other learning skills, and also show the necessity of the librarian’s involvement in course design teams. This approach to library teaching has been developed most, perhaps, in art and design libraries where the demands of the ‘hidden curriculum’ have always been felt, if not overtly acknowledged.

(The text of a paper presented at the ARLIS Seminar on User Education held at Leeds Polytechnic, 7-8 April, 1978.)

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1978

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