Why Information Literacy?
The information Literacy programme is designed to assist students to:
• Recognize the need for relevant information
• Define the task/ assignment for which information is needed
• Locate the appropriate sources of information
• Locate the information within a resource
• Understand, appreciate, evaluate, select relevant information for the task/assignment
• Record, organize and reference the work created accurately to avoid plagiarism
• Present the information gathered/learned in the appropriate format stipulated by the task/assignment
• Evaluate the work created in terms of the requirements of the task/assignment and also in terms of the
strategies used to create work
(Todd, Ross. Info Literacy: Philosophy, Principles and Practice.” SLW 1 (1), 1990, 54-55.)
