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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION LITERACY PROGRAMME IN LIBRARIES

ii. Initiating search strategy

iii. Locating the resources
iv. Accessing and comprehending the information

v. Interpreting the information

vi. Communicating the information
vii. Evaluating the product and process

According to Rudsill (1998), there was numerous of information literacy
programme that are held in the United States and these programme use the American

Library Association’s (ALA) definition of information. Saidatul (2014) said that teaching

and learning in information literacy can be applied to any programme to teach skills that
prepare individual students to be information literate persons.

For example of forum, The Asia Regional Literacy Forum and various conferences
on libraries, librarianship and the information professionals have always included papers

and discussions on information literacy. However, in October 2004, the University of

Brunei Darussalam cooperated with the Brunei Darussalam Library Association organized
the Conference on Information Literacy where it was the first kind in South East Asia

when provided a venue for libraries and librarians from this region to showcase their
information literacy initiatives. It established information literacy as “the ability to

recognise when information is needed, to identify the needed information, to identify the
sources, to locate and access information efficiently and effectively, to evaluate

information critically, to organise and integrate information into existing knowledge, to

use information ethically and legally, to communicate information, and carry out all of the
above activities effectively” (Diljit Singh, 2005).

2.2.1 Empowering Eight Model

The Empowering Eight Model was creating by Endry Boeriswati, State

University of Jakarta, Indonesia in year 2005. The Empowering Eight or E8 consist
of 8 components namely, identify, explore, select, organise, create, present, assess,

and apply (Wijetunge, 2005). A second workshop was held in India to explore the
Empowering Eight further (Kim, 1998) Malaysia’s involvement in this endeavour is

a clear indication of the direction in which the Malaysian authorities is taking in
order to inculcate information literacy within the school system.

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