Information literacy skills for first years

1. Information Literacy
for ECP
Created by Hedley Hendricks
Presented by Gerald Louw

2. Information Literacy
for ECP
What is information?
• Facts
• Message
• Knowledge
• Experience or instruction

3. Information overload

4. What is literacy
• Ability to read and write

5. What is Information Literacy?
• Ability to recognise the value of
information and use to make informed
choices, either in your personal life or
professional life

6. Therefore, an information literate
person should have:
• Library Skills
-subject categories
-broader, narrower terms, synonyms
• Computer Skills
-navigate library resources
-navigate the internet (search engines e.g. scirus)

7. 5 Steps of IL
• Recognise the need for information
• Critically think about the topic
• Read and make notes
• Define keywords (mind mapping; select
broader or narrower terms; identify
different spellings)
• Find (search and locate ) the information

8. Finding tools:
• Library catalogue (find books and journals)
e.g. Smartsearch
• Databases (find journal and newspaper
articles)
• Web (use search engines like Google
scholar and Scirus)

9. Evaluate the information
• facts vs opinion
• authority of information
• publishers reputation
• currency

10. Legal implications
• Plagiarism
• Copyright issues

11. Tasks:
• Writing an assignment
• Presenting
• Displaying
• Designing a poster or brochure.

12. eSEARCH
• Introduction to UWC Electronic Resources
• Exploring online information to get further
with your assignment

13. Search UWC library website

14. Select Information Resources

15. Select Databases M - Z

16. Select Science Direct

17. Select Search

18. Type in keywords

19. Browse the Result list

20. Select Databases M - Z

22. Scroll
down

23. Select
Sabinet
Reference

24. Sabinet Reference
Select both SA Media and
SA ePublications

25. Type keywords
Type in
keywords

26. Result list
Browse
result
list

27. Download Pdf, export citation, create
RSS feeds

28. Pdf
fulltext,
print

29. Save as

30. Select database SA Media
Select
SA
Media
for
newspa
pers

31. Type in keywords

32. List of newspaper clippings
Browse
newspaper
clippings

33. Select a clipping
Open Pdf
file

34. Download clipping

35. Referencing
Harvard style
• Online newspapers
Online newspaper article
Deklerk, A. 2011. Refugees still
fear for their lives. Mail &
Guardian [online], 11 November
2011. Available
at: http://mg.co.za/article/2011-
11-11-refugees-still-fear-for-
their-lives/ [Accessed 22 November
2011].
In-text referencing: (De Klerk,
2011)

36. Referencing (Continued)
• Websites:
Publications from websites
Basic structure:
Author or corporate author. Year. Title of document.
[type of medium]. Place: Producer/Publisher.
Available at: include web site address. [Accessed
date].
Ncongwane, P. 2011. African Scene.
[online]. Available at:
http://www.africanscene.co.za/2011/
03/the-future-of-education-in-
south-africa/[(Accessed 24 October
2012].
In-Text referencing:

37. Referencing (continued)
• Electronic scholarly journal:
Electronic scholarly journal
Ellery, K. 2008. 'An investigation
into electronic-resource plagiarism
in a first year essay
assignment', Assessment &
Evaluation in Higher
Education [ejournal], 33(6),
pp.607-617. Available from:
Academic Search
Premier/DOI10.1080/0260293070177278
8 [Accessed 21 November 2011].
In-Text referencing: (Ellery, 2008,
p 612)

38. Select Search engine Scirus
Type in
keyword
s

39. Select current sources or the
Preferred web
Select
content
sources
& Pref
web