The first of these standards was the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a subgroup of the American Library Association (ALA). In the United Kingdom, the position paper of the Society for College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) is entitled Information Literacy in Higher Education. The Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy (ANZIL) recognize the origin of their standards as being the standards of the ACRL (2004, p. 3).
The information literate person recognizes the need for information and determines the nature and extent of the information needed”. The information literate student understands many of the economic, legal and social issues surrounding the use of information and accesses and uses information ethically and legally”. What is missing is to identify and incorporate strategies that will support the cognitive processing of the information”.
There are also attempts during the search process to identify and change strategies based on the results of the initial attempts. Either way, people who lack motivation see no personal benefit in crossing the divide. This generated very few responses and purposive sampling was used in a second round of the survey.
Nine of the group were trained to search for literature online, while 12 were not. For all but one of the respondents, the use of the Internet was not only related to studies. It is worth noting that 18 out of 21 respondents used at least one Google tool.
P6, a librarian at UKZN as well as part of the student group stated in the interview afterwards,. Referring to the definition of a quality text, most participants considered peer review to be most important with author credentials somewhat less so. Most of the participants noted that before this, they were not aware of databases.
This seemed to convince only a portion of the group, with others claiming that the idea of free articles seemed strange. The last element of the intervention was a discussion about the evaluation of the quality of what is found in the search. Author: The identity of the author cannot be established, or the author's credentials are not authoritative.
This article was assessed by myself in 2006 as part of the module "Discourses in Educational Research" and I assessed it in the following way.
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This questionnaire is part of a survey to examine how postgraduate humanities students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Howard College use the web to find literature. It is being carried out as part of research for my Master's thesis entitled: Using browser-based resources for literature search in a cohort of postgraduate students in the Faculty of Humanities, Development and Social Sciences (HDSS) at Howard College Campus KwaZulu-Natal. You can decide to withdraw from the research process at any time before submitting your thesis.
By completing this questionnaire, you are not committing yourself to participating in any other part of the research. I understand the information above and agree that my answers form part of the research. This interview is part of research intended to study how postgraduate students in Humanities at the Howard College campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal use the web for literature searches.
You can choose to withdraw from the research process at any time up to the submission of the thesis. Your anonymity is guaranteed and your name will not be used in any part of the thesis. By participating in this interview, you agree to participate in the remaining parts of the study.
This record of search practices is part of research aimed at studying how postgraduate humanities students at the Howard College campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal use the web for literature searches. Your anonymity is guaranteed and your name will not be used in any part of the thesis where you will be identified with a code. At the end of the workshop, you will be asked to comment in writing on the workshop itself.
Your anonymity is guaranteed and your name will not be used in any part of the thesis where you will be identified with a code. The focus group aims to investigate the effects of the workshop on literature search practices among participants. It is being done as part of the research for my Master's thesis entitled: The use of browser-based resources for literature searches in the postgraduate cohort of the Faculty of Humanities, Development and Social Sciences (HDSS) at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
By participating in this questionnaire, you are not committing to participate in any other part of the research. I understand the above information and agree that my responses are part of the research.
