Poster Abstract

1. Is there such a thing as ‘business information literacy’? An approach
for business schools to customise information literacy training course
by course
Avtar Natt, BPP University College of Professional Studies, avtarnatt@bpp.com
The aim of the poster is to explore if academic institutions have a unique information
requirement for their students studying courses at a business school.
Using the example of my current employer I will visually share how the end result of
every business school graduate should be unique course by course. This uniqueness
needs to be broken down and resolved with the correct type of information literacy
instruction for student course by course.
An example of this is how an MSc Finance graduate will need to have more critical
evaluative skills with financial information resources/information. In comparison an
MSc Marketing graduate will need to have more an awareness of market research
instead of financial information. Examples of information literacy tasks students need
to engage in (course by course) will be included as well as a more generalised
template for other academic institutions to adopt.
Also included in this poster will be how the information literacy requirements of
international students also need to be considered. My current employer recruit a
number of international students and group information literacy tasks need to include
these students who at times can be left out of more specialised information literacy
instruction.
In short, my opinion is that business information literacy exists, is unique and consists
of awareness and the ability to critically evaluate information in the academic world,
market research as well as financial information. The rationale for this article stems
from an afterthought I had while writing a paper for The Journal of Business &
Finance Librarianship (in submission).