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Information literacy

Learning how to find and use relevant, high-quality information will make you more employable. Organisations in every sector of the economy increasingly look for these skills in new recruits. The most progressive organisations include information literacy among a set of key skills that all employees are required to demonstrate or develop. An information literate employee:

  • recognises when information is needed;
  • can locate information;
  • can evaluate information;
  • recognises when s/he has found enough information;
  • makes effective use of the information gathered.

Information is increasingly abundant. An information illiterate employee wastes time and costs her/his employee money.


Page: 1 of 12 Page 1: Introduction Page 2: Information Literacy Page 3: Discovering what information is available Page 4: Getting hold of the information you need Page 5: Search strategies Page 6: Effective searching - structured databases Page 7: Casting the net wide Page 8: Narrowing the field Page 9: Excluding irrelevant content from your search Page 10: Boolean operators and search engines Page 11: Phrase in search engines Page 12: Information resources after you graduate « Prev | Next »