Goals of Information Literacy Course

A purpose of course is to help students to acquire knowledge of search for information in connection studies in subject of physics.
Goals include:

1. An understanding of how scholarly information is organized.

2. An awareness of "information tools" which can save time in information searching.
3. The ability to construct an appropriate search strategy in connection with specific information needs.
4. The ability to use information tools to search for, locate and obtain information.
5. The ability to evaluate the information obtained from a variety of sources.
6. The ability to be able to handle and organize the information obtained.

The objectives of information literacy course are:

• be able to develop a systematic method of search for information in subject of physic's;
• be aware of the wide range of sources available for finding information and select the sources which will best meet users' needs;
• be aware of appropriate indexing and abstracting services, and databases and understand the principles of their use;
• to develop database searching techniques for accessing both online and CD-ROM databases;
• be able to use current awareness methods to keep up to date with the publishes literature after initial search;
• be able to use the international academic networks for getting information;
• be able to compare and evaluate information obtained from various sources;
• be able to cite bibliographic references in project report or theses;
• be able to construct a personal bibliographic system.

Back to Contents