There the objectives include the establishment of a generic school portal to the networked learning materials. From the academic library s point of view it will be important to follow this development because the university students in 5 to 7 years time will be the products of this virtual school. Many of the information literacy skills are or should be already adopted at this stage. The HUT library courses on scientific information searching were redesigned a year ago and the student response towards the new courses has been very positive. The objectives for the new courses included more intensive integration of the networked electronic campus library materials because an increasing number of students will primarily use only the networked library services.
Some students are likely to bypass the physical library services altogether.
The library information specialists were trained to become course tutors. Tutoring via e-mail provided the information specialists with a personal and a much closer contact with the students than before. Yet another more general aim for the redesign process was to market the electronic library services and thus promote the dynamic nature of the modern library supporting higher education and research. Regarding the virtual university the FinELib licence agreement allow the use of the materials for educational purposes. Today the redesigned library courses run four times a year and last for 5 weeks each and equal 1 credit in the curricula.