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Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences: A Workshop Report

Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences: A Workshop Report. Sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research. Computer Literacy. Learning to Learn. L E A R N @ D U L S. IT Literacy. Information Literacy. Information Skills. Library Skills. Rajesh Singh

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Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences: A Workshop Report

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  1. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report Sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research Computer Literacy Learning to Learn L E A R N @ D U L S IT Literacy Information Literacy Information Skills Library Skills Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian E-Resources & Training Delhi University Library System University of Delhi, Delhi

  2. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report • Summary • Introduction • Information Literacy defined • Information Literacy components • Delhi University Library System Profile • Information Literacy Programs at DULS • ILP for Social Science Researchers • Components • Feed Back • Implications

  3. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report • Introduction • Increasing role of ICT in libraries and information centers. • Internet an unavoidable necessity for institution of higher learning and research. • The subscribed as well as public domain e-resources are bound to play a vital role in teaching, learning and research including in life-long learning. • This necessitates to make the users competent enough for retrieving precise and relevant information as per their needs. • To deliver the right kind of information services to the right users at the right time, demands for well structured Information Literacy and Competency Programs.

  4. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report • Information Literacy defined • Information literacy is a set of individual ability "to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate and use effectively the needed information“ • It is a set of competencies that an informed citizen of an information society ought to posses to participate actively and intelligently in that society.

  5. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report • Information Literacy Aspects • Tool literacy: The ability to understand and use tools of current information technology relevant to education and professional life. • Resource literacy: The ability to understand the form, format, location and access methods of information resources. • Research Literacy: The ability to understand and use the IT based tools relevant to the work of today’s scholars and researchers. • Critical Literacy: The ability to evaluate critically the intellectual, human and social strengths and weaknesses, potentials and limits, benefits and costs of information technologies. • Emerging Technology: The ability to adapt, understand, and evaluate the emerging technologies and make use of the continually emerging innovations in IT.

  6. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report DULS Profile • DULS comprising of 34 libraries comprising of major libraries, faculty libraries, departmental libraries and subject libraries; • It has a collection of about 14.5 lac books, 1300 periodicals, 20000 theses and dissertations; • It subscribes to a large number of databases and is an active member of UGC-Infonet. • DULS keeps on researching on public domain E-resources • Library users at DULS Faculty Students

  7. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report objectives • To acquaint the users with the power of Internet; • To show how multimedia web resources could be of immense use in their academic pursuit and research; • To describe specific features of various databases; • To promote the use of subscribed/ public domain databases in study, teaching and research. • To acquaint the users with the use of various search techniques.

  8. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report Objectives Contd… • To recognize the need for information, and to evaluate, organize, interpret, and communicate information in all its formats; • To provide research-integrated instruction in collaboration with the faculty and in alignment with research objectives; • To establish a direct interaction between users and library professionals. • To explain the necessity of bibliographical citations and its usefulness. • To promote the use of standardized citations of bibliographical references.

  9. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report • Thus information literate library users are supposed to: • Be competent, independent learners; • Actively engage in the world of ideas; • Confidently solve problems; • Know what is relevant information; • Use technological tools to access information and communicate; • Operate comfortably in multiple answers or no answers situations; • Have high standards for their work and use information ethically; • Create quality products.

  10. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report ILP at DULS • ILP for Post Graduate Students • ILP for Research Scholars • ILP for College Teachers • Information Literacy Lab

  11. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report ILP for Social Science Researchers Social Science Research and the Internet • Internet : a biggest source of information with widest coverage and the fastest access. • Evaluating Internet Resources:Authority, Accuracy, Currency, Coverage, Objectivity • Google Services: Anatomy of Search, Special search tips, A Reference tool, Google Scholar, Google Patents, Google Books, etc. • Public Domain Resources: Subject Gateways, E-Books, E-Journals, Scholarly Websites, etc.

  12. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report Information Competency in Social Sciences The Presentation mainly described the following aspects. • Internet and Academic Research in Social Sciences. • Features of Electronic Information Sources. • Importance of Subscribed databases • Role of E-resources in Social Science Research. • Orientation to subscribed databases • Practical exposure • The scope, coverage and important features of all the Social Science databases subscribed by DULS databases available from UGC- Infonet were described to the audience. • Some selected topics of research were practically searched and demonstrated.

  13. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report • Bibliographic Citations • The presentation of Bibliographic citations was based on the Chicago Manual of style, 15th edition. • Introduction to bibliographic citations; • Need & Importance of citations in scholarly writings; • What is plagiarism? ; • How can we avoid plagiarism ?; • Sources that need to be credited or acknowledge in scholarly writings; • Some tips on preventing plagiarism; • Different manuals of style for bibliographic citations; • The 15th ed. of the Chicago Manual of Style comprising, general guide lines and how to cite different sources : rules and examples was described to the audience. • The presentation practically demonstrated the various rules regarding bibliographical citations and how to make the citations in research.

  14. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report Search Techniques Use of Internet in teaching, learning and research largely depends upon the knowledge of search techniques. The presentation deliberated on the • Role of WWW in academic research. • Use of Internet worldwide. • Features of web resources. • Types of resources on the web. • Importance of e-resources in academic research. • How to find relevant and precise information. • Recall, Relevance and precision in web search • Kinds of search :Phrase search, Field search, Boolean operators, Proximity search, Controlled vocabulary, Concept Map, Limiting/Refining searches, Publication search, Visual search, Related topics • The above web search techniques were defined and practically demonstrated to the audience. Important subscribed databases were used to practically demonstrate the search techniques.

  15. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report Feedback Analysis • There were total 150 research scholars who participated in the workshop out of which 89 researchers were from M.Phil and 61 researchers were from Ph. D. • a total of 98.67% of participants (48.67% strongly agree and 50% aggress) have reported that the presentation is focused on materials and skills that are relevant to current research • In terms of clarity of explanation as good as 86.67% of participants (32% strongly agree and 54.67% agree) have responded that the various subscribed databases e-resources on WWW, searching techniques and the concept of bibliographical citations are clearly explained. • Responding to the usefulness of instruction material a total of 92% of participants (44% strongly aggress and 48% aggress) have found the instruction material (e.g multimedia websites etc) useful for their research.

  16. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report Feedback Analysis Contd… • As for as the impact of the workshop on research activity is concerned 53.33% of respondents are strongly agree, 42% agree, and 1.33% disagree to the statement that the workshop is going to improve web searching capabilities use of e-resources and citation pattern in my research work. • To the statement, ‘Researchers are more prepared to use library and WWW services for research assignments as a result of this session’ 43.33% participants strongly agree, 49.33% agree. • A total of 85.33% of audience (34% strongly agree and 51.33% agree) have found that the content given in the presentation shows the academic flavor of the librarians’ grasp on the subject matter. • As far as physical environment is concerned 88.66% of participants have termed the physical environment suitable for instruction. Complete View

  17. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report To sum up WE: • Develop necessary skills in defining users’ information needs; • Make them understand various formats in which information resources are available; • Make them understand the advantages of e-resources over printed resources; • Develop necessary skills to use various types of search techniques (basic and advanced) for precise answers to their queries; • Expose them with the coverage of various databases vis-à-vis their syllabi / subject requirements;

  18. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report WE: • Make them understand the features and search strategy of each database vis-à-vis their syllabi/ topic of interest; • Amalgamate their requirements with textual and multimedia resources; • Expose them with quality Public Domain resources, Subject Gateways, public domain e-journals, e-books, and subject specific websites; • Provide them opportunity to practice with structured tutorials in the training centre.

  19. Information Literacy Program for Social Sciences:A Workshop Report Thank You Very Much For Your Patient Hearing Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian, E-Resources &Trg. Delhi University Library System University of Delhi, DELHI rsingh@duls.du.ac.in

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