Amazon.com description: Product Description: Libraries are the natural resource for the student. Outside the formal education system there exists a multitude of adult learners who are students in the wider sense of the term; they seek to increase their knowledge from a host of motives, ranging from sheer personal interest to the imperative of career development. This guide for the 1990s emphasizes the learners and the librarians, not the type of library. It addresses the needs of the learners for educational guidance, for a real choice of methods of learning, and a variety of modern library stocks. It explains the competences and knowledge required of librarians working within an educational support network.