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These information literacy modules are an integral part of your health sciences course. They can be undertaken in any order and referred to as often as required. 

Information literacy is the ability to recognize when information is needed and to locate, evaluate, and effectively use the needed information.

Assessment

There is a final quiz ( worth 5%) which is in the LMS of HLT1IPA relating to these modules . The due date has been changed to week 10. An announcement and link to the assessment quiz will be posted in  the LMS.

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Discover Information  literacy  talks about information literacy: what it is  and why it is so important to you. The video is 8 minutes long.

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Information literate people:

• "engage in independent learning through constructing new meaning, understanding and knowledge;
• derive satisfaction and personal fulfilment from using information wisely;
• individually and collectively search for and use information for decision making and problem solving in order to address personal, professional and societal issues; and
• demonstrate social responsibility through a commitment to lifelong learning and community participation."

Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy and Council of Australian University Librarians (2003). Australian and New Zealand information literacy framework. Principles, standards and practice . Adelaide, Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy.
Retrieved from the World Wide Web 24 October, 2006:
http://www.caul.edu.au/info-literacy/InfoLiteracyFramework.pdf  from Griffth University
 

Lisa is a librarian at the Borchardt library on the Bundoora campus of La Trobe University.

  Lisa says “I’m a librarian. I work in the references services at the library which means that I work with students giving them advice about how to find the best information for their essays and their assignments”.

Continue on to Lisa's talk.

(This material is available from the Preparation for University site)