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HQ1001N/C

HQ1001N/C. Information Literacy. Introduction. Today, I’m going to be discussing the importance of Information Literacy to students in the Humanities. What is Information Litracy? Why is it important?

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HQ1001N/C

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  1. HQ1001N/C Information Literacy

  2. Introduction Today, I’m 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…

  3. 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 aren’t on your reading list and useful websites too!

  4. 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?

  5. 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

  6. Bibliographyhttp://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/busdev/hq1001nc/index.htmRader, Information Literacy and the Undergraduate Curriculum

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