INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS (ILS)

TRAINING FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS

OVERVIEW

Importance of ILS Training for Medical Students

Why training?

Ability of Information Literacy

What is an Information Literacy Person?

Modules

Importance of Information Literacy Skills (ILS) Training for

Medical Students Motivation for information literacy skills is based on the realization that academic libraries are central and critical to the instructional and scholarly life of the universities they serve

They are integral parts of the teaching, learning and research

Medical Librarians are accepting the challenge of graduating students with information and communication technology competencies

It is therefore important to design instructional modules to be taught to medical students during their academic career

ILS recognizes that all learners need training in information and communication technology in order to fully utilize available information resources.

Why ILS Training?

Information Communication Technologies have changed the way in which we communicate

Whilst books and journals remain important, CD-ROM, e-mail and the Internet are supplementing and even replacing some forms of print material (INASP, 2002)

Due to these developments, the following questions arise:

What new skills and techniques are needed to search, find and navigate this information?

What kind of training is needed? What kind of training is needed?

How can these electronic resources be evaluated?

Ability of Information Literacy

Understand in a basic sense how resource information is produced, disseminated, organized, including differences among primary, secondary and tertiary literature and the distinction between popular and peer-reviewed literature

Information literacy is increasingly important in contemporary environment of rapid technological change

It is common to all disciplines, to all learning environments, and to all levels of education

It enables learners to master content and extend their investigations, become more self-directed, and assume greater control over their own learning.

What is an Information Literate Person?

Determines the extent of information needed Accesses the needed information effectively and

efficiently Evaluates information and its sources critically Incorporates selected information into one`s

knowledge base Uses information effectively to accomplish a

specific purpose Understands the economic, legal, and social

issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally.

Module 1

Lecture 1: Information Organization Lecture 2: Information Sources Lecture 3: Access Tools Lecture 4: Information Retrieval Lecture 5: Electronic Information

Retrieval-navigating websites, subject gateways, advanced searches, online journals, evaluating resources

Lecture 6: Referencing

Module 2

Information Sources Books Periodicals Indexes and Abstracts Bibliographies Encyclopedias CD-ROM Databases The Internet

Module 3

Lecture 1: Topic Analysis and Knowledge structure –Basic Structure of Databases, Selecting a Database, Abstracts and Full-text articles

Lecture 2: Access Tools Lecture 3: Search Strategy-Electronic

Information Retrieval Skills Lecture 4: Digital Libraries, E-Books and E-

Journals Lecture 5: Bibliography & Intellectual

Property-plagiarism, copyright, referencing

Module 4

Lecture 1: The Research Process-Topic Analysis, OPAC, CD-ROM

Lecture 2: Information Retrieval – search engines, Using Websites, Subject Gateways

Lecture 4: Evaluating Articles

Module 5

Lecture 1: Search Engines

Lecture 2: Keywords and Boolean Operators

Lecture 3: Evaluating Sites

Lecture 4: Referencing

Citation Styles-MLA

Refers to rules and conventions established by the Modern Language Association

Book by one authorDatey, K. K. Essentials of cardiac therapy. New

Delhi : Allied Publishers, 1983. Book with three authors

Datey, K. K., James Hingorani and Edward Mujera. Essentials of cardiac therapy. New Delhi : Allied Publishers, 1983.

Book with more than three authorsDatey, K. K. et al. Essentials of cardiac therapy.

New Delhi : Allied Publishers, 1983.

Harvard Citation Style

Book with one author

Smith, David. (1987) Plastic and reconstructive surgery for students, Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, Chicago.

Book with two or three authors

Smith, David, Mataruse, A. & Mujera, E. T. (1987) Plastic and reconstructive surgery for students, Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, Chicago.

Harvard Citation Style

Thesis

Ncube, T. (2000), Children and the family, Phd Thesis, University of Zimbabwe.

Article in a journal

Kongle, C. & Crago, S. (1999) “Pacemakers and related children”, Medical Journal of North America, vol. 85,no. 2, pp71-77.

INTERNET

Electronic journalbasic pattern: Surname, First name(s), Year. Title of article. Title of journal, vol. no. (issue no.). (URL: xxxx…) Date accessed.

ExampleMicco, Mary, (1996). Subject authority

control in the world of Internet. Libres, 6(3). (URL: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/) [Accessed 22 July 2009]

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