In the world of today information plays very important role in the research and
development work and in the live of scientists and engineers. The total mass of
information grows rapidly and it makes more and more difficult to find exactly what you
are looking for.
It is impossible to find out all the recorded information, observations, experiments,
measurements, standards, opinions of the thousands of people working in one subject area.
Fortunately, it is possible to learn about the organisation of knowledge within a subject
and to find what require efficiently and quickly. The use of communication networks plays
an important part in information handling. Learning how to
obtain and handle information efficiently is of grate importance to students and research
workers.
Information Literacy is not academic discipline in its own right, but rather a
supradisciplinary activity which can be integrated or related to other academic courses.
Education in information handling could be closely integrated with the academic programs,
within the respective disciplines. The development of information literacy in the academic
environment is ideally based on the close cooperation between academic and library staff.
It is very important that the course could be designed to meet the real information need
of the users and made available at a time when there are specific information
requirements.
This course is an integrated approach to the basics of effective use of computers,
libraries, and information. It presents the fundamentals of university level information
literacy, provides a common level of understanding basics and prepares you to master more
advanced and complex skills appropriate to academic disciplines.