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
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)