Training librarians and information specialists to support academic staff using networks Available to Purchase

Libraries and learning resource centres occupy unique positions in campus networked information services. Managers and staff in academic libraries are in transition. Their roles as information specialists may not change; however, their methods of delivery will. Strategic planners recognize the impending culture change. How this culture change will affect academic libraries remains unclear (Fielden, 1996). The Joint Information Systems Committee of the HEFCs funded the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) to study culture change in academic libraries. TAPin is a West Midlands based consortium of six diverse universities committed to a three year study of their library services from training library staff in Internet skills to the delivery of support to Education, Law and Life Sciences academic staff. Provides a description of the training programme for librarians. This article and others reporting results from the research can be located at TAPin’s home page at http://www.uce.ac.uk/tapin/tapin.htm