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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION LITERACY PROGRAMME IN LIBRARIES

2.3 TYPES OF INFORMATION LITERACY PROGRAMMES IN LIBRARY

Secker and Macrae-Gibson (2011) in their study on the impact of IL programmes
pointed out that student confident on finding published works was 2.9 percent before

attending the IL programme and after the IL programme became 4.5 percent, on searching

the information through internet was 2.85 percent and after the IL programme became 4.3
percent. In addition, information literacy programmes no doubt equip students with the

skills to find, evaluate and manage information they need for their academic work. The
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (2000) in UK reported that by attending

the IL programme student will have the ability or capable to gather and analyse relevant

information from a wide variety of sources using appropriate manual and electronic
system.

For further understanding, types of information literacy programme including
library orientation session, information literacy skills class and user education programme

was developed in order to train and educate library users to become an information literate.

Once they joined information literacy class for example, the users capable to retrieve
information from the right sources and used it for the right purpose. Information literacy

usually been implementing mostly in public and academic libraries where their target
audience are commonly known such as school children, university and college students,

villagers, civil servants, professionals, people with special needs and others. From
information literacy programme, users can build up their information literacy skills where

it seems crucial in today’s information explosion.

Information literacy programmes in library comes into variant ways. As for
academic libraries, Szarina et al. (2006) concluded in their study said that students who

have attended a one semester compulsory information skills course and library orientation
for new students have higher mean score at the advanced and intermediate levels than those

who have not. In Malaysia, Edzan and Zainab (2005) noted that about nine public

universities in Malaysia conduct form of information literacy course for their
undergraduates using teacher-centred approach. All these programmes are prepared,

managed and delivered by the librarians with collaboration with library staff. Edzan (2008)
reported that academic libraries were actively conducting their various library orientation

programmes, library skills programmes, library research programmes, information skills
programmes and other similar programmes where it main aim is to educate the user on

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