Fallon, Helen and Antonesa, Mary (2007) The developement of information skills to support a changing postgraduate research enviroment: an Irish experience. Sconul Focus (42). pp. 30-32.

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This article begins by outlining significant changes which are taking place in the Irish university research environment. It goes on to briefly describe a project to identify postgraduate generic skills, necessary in this new research environment, which the Deputy Librarian of the National University of Ireland (NUI) Maynooth led. Following on from this, a generic skills module for postgraduates in science and engineering was designed and delivered by the science librarian and the faculty member assigned to developing a programme of generic skills for postgraduates in the sciences; this module is introduced. The article concludes with a reflection on the issues/challenges in providing generic information-literacy modules to postgraduates, in a time of a radically changing research environment in Irish universities.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Information literacy: Information skills; Postgraduate information literacy; Postgraduate generic skills; librarians; libraries;
Academic Unit:	University Library
Item ID:	975
Depositing User:	Helen Fallon
Date Deposited:	12 May 2008
Journal or Publication Title:	Sconul Focus
Publisher:	Sconul
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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