HQ1001N/C

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HQ1001N/C

• Information Literacy

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Introduction

• Today, Im going to be discussing the importance
  of Information Literacy to students in the
  Humanities. What is Information Litracy? Why is
  it important?
• To be information literate, a person must be
  able to recognise when information is needed and
  have the ability to locate, evaluate and use
  effectively the information needed. Ultimately
  information literate people are those who have
  learned how to learn. They know how to learn
  because they know how knowledge is organised, how
  to find information, and how to use information
  in such a way that others can learn from them.
• Why should we study Information Literacy? How is
  it relevant to History or English Literature or
  Education Studies
• or Caribbean Studies or Ethics or Film Stuies or
  
• Theatre Studies or Translation or Performing
  Arts
• or Spanish and Latin American Studies or French?
• This is what I am going to look at in the
  following
• PowerPoint presentation

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Why study Information Literacy? Looking for
information

• Read the module booklet
• Your reading list
• Ask the lecturer
• He or she may be able to tell you what sources to
  use and where to find the information in them
• Ask other students
• They might use the same sources as you and your
  essays will be very similar
• Check the library catalogue or the Internet to
  find books that arent on your reading list and
  useful websites too!

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Information Literacy skills?

• Knowing where to look for information in the
  Library catalogue, the Internet, newsapers,
  academic databases (some are on CD-Rom), online
  journals, and evaluating information you find -
• Is your information relevent and up-to-date and
  reliable and the right amount?
• Processing, presenting and referencing the
  information.
• A a wbpage or a printed document, with pictures
  or just text, using quotations or not,
  referencing properly with a bibliography for
  everything, inlcuding websites?

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What This Means

• Information Literacy not just IT skills using
  computers
• Fully information literate overnight - not
  possible
• Final year student need new skills
• Dissertation
• Use Information Literacy website

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Bibliographyhttp//learning.londonmet.ac.uk/busde
v/hq1001nc/index.htmRader, Information Literacy
and the Undergraduate Curriculum