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| Title: | ASSESSING INFORMATION LITERACY COMPETENCY OF RESEARCH STUDENTS IN INDIA: A CASE STUDY |
| Authors: | Bavakutty, M.
Nasirudheen, T. P. O. |
| Keywords: | Information literacy skills
User education programme
Research students
Science students
Non-science students |
| Issue Date: | Nov-2008 |
| Publisher: | Library & Information Science Unit, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya |
| Abstract: | The study presents the information literacy competency of the research scholars in the Kerala
University, India. The study analyses the problems faced by the research scholars in formulation of
research topic, identification and evaluation of information sources and designing the strategies of
information retrieval. The study also attempts to determine the quality of information sources
used by the research students and compare the information literacy competency of science and
non-science students. The study implies that adequate measures have to be taken in higher
educational and research institutions to equip the students with the information literacy skills
even during their graduation/post-graduation period. The findings drive us to the urgency of
information literacy programs to be taken up in our universities and research institutions not for
one time, but rather on a continuous basis |
| Description: | In Towards an information literate society: proceedings of the International
Conference on Libraries, Information and Society, ICoLIS 2008, Petaling Jaya,
Malaysia, 18-19 November 2008 |
| URI: | http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/297 |
| ISBN: | 978-983-43491-0-3 |
| Appears in Collections: | ICoLIS2008
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