The ability of researchers to handle information is of vital importance. Many individuals have become adept at developing approaches and using innovative technologies to make most of the information environment, but others rather less so. Questions about how researchers develop appropriate skills, the support they receive, the training opportunities provided for them, and the take-up of such opportunities are thus highly pertinent.
The widespread perception that some research supervisors do not recognise the need for the types of training on offer to 'their' postgraduate students. Some supervisors are viewed by library and information specialists as a 'lost generation', overtaken by advances in research information, and not fully aware of the implications of some of these changes". In the context of the necessary development of enabling improved information literacy, the place of research supervisors is one that is thus worthy of investigation.
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