title: Empowering international nursing students to become effective library users.
abstract: This article summarises the research conducted for a dissertation which addressed the needs of students and academic staff of the Bachelor of Nursing International programme at St. Angela's College, Ireland. Aoife Murray completed an MSc Econ Information and Library Studies in 2015 from Aberystwyth University via distance learning. She gained a distinction for her work and has co-written the article with Hugh Preston, her dissertation supervisor. Aoife highlights the recommendations she made as a result of her research and the programme put in place to deliver those recommendations. She also reports on some early evaluations of the new programme. AM.
authors: McKeown Library, St. Angela's College, Lough Gill, Sligo, Ireland. amurray@stangelas.nuigalway.ie.
authors: Aoife
authors: A
authors: Murray
authors: Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK. hjp@aber.ac.uk.
authors: Hugh
authors: H
authors: Preston
mesh_terms: D004212:Academic Dissertations as Topic; D006801:Humans; D057226:Information Seeking Behavior; D007494:Ireland; D007993:Libraries, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007999:Library Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D064700:Nurses, International; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012107:Research Design; D013338:Students, Nursing
keywords: dissertations; education; information literacy; libraries academic; library services; nursing