A presentation on how Information Literacy is fundamental and relevant for survival in all sectors.

1. Mapheto Marriette R.
Information
Literacy (IL):
The of it all

2. Outcomes:
• Definition
• 5 components
• Conclusion
• References

3. Information Literacy
The ability to recognise/identify the information need, find the
information, evaluate the located information, apply it to your work
and acknowledge the source from which you found the information
(ACRL, 2002).

4. Components of IL
• Identify, recognise an information need gap.
• Find, visiting the available resources.
• Evaluate, sifting through the resources and only taking the relevant
ones.
• Apply, draw meaning and integrating the found information to your
work. This could be in a means of paraphrasing, quoting or
synthesizing.
• Acknowledge, indicate the original authors by means of in-text
referencing and providing their full information in the reference list.

5. Components of IL
Information literacy
Identify
Find
Apply
Acknowledge
Evaluate

6. Conclusion
• An information literate person is the one with the ability to identify
the information need, find the information, evaluate the found
information, use it and acknowledge the sources.

7. References
• ACRL. 2000. Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher
Education. American Library Association: Chicago. [Online] Available
on
http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/standards/sta
ndards.pdf Accessed on 14 May 2016.