Based on the findings of this study, different approaches to teaching students how to find information should be applied to the different faculties. Instructional methods that empower Arts and Social Sciences students to help and to teach each other could help ensure that these students transfer the best skills to one another. Providing instruction to Management and Science faculty and partnering with them to co-teach and co-produce online tutorials will ensure that they provide the best guidance to their students. Self-teaching should be better supported by the library, perhaps through clearly-marked "how-to" resources (brief step-by-step guides and online tutorials) placed within online courses for students who do not use the library website. Overall, findings indicate that students' confidence with information seeking increases significantly when they receive librarian-led instruction - this indicates a great value in the library's information literacy efforts and should encourage additional outreach efforts. Although our respondent group consisted of 83 students, the faculty groups were fairly small and not representative of all disciplines within the faculties. Conclusions drawn from this study cannot be applied at the discipline level and should be verified by further studies. Observational studies could confirm or contradict the findings of this study, which, by nature of the method, are based on self-reported data (ie, do students do what they say they do?).
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