User Education For Fresh Students At The Balme Library, University Of Ghana: Overcoming The Challenges

The Balme Library is the main library of the University of Ghana library system and has, over the years, been organizing a user education programme for fresh students at the start of a new academic year. Unfortunately, a critical examination of the programme has revealed certain difficulties as the university and, indeed, the library undergoes rapid changes. The challenges, no doubt, have the tendency of affecting the library's effort at inculcating in the students skills of independent information search. The article highlights these challenges and comes up with some measures to help in tackling the problems. Keywords: Information literacy, bibliographic instruction, library orientation, university libraries. Ghana Library Journal Vol. 19 (2) 2007 pp. 59-7