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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION LITERACY PROGRAMME IN LIBRARIES

2.5 BENEFITS OF INFORMATION LITERACY PROGRAM

Many benefit of Information Literacy Programs for students, staffs, and library.
Students can gain benefit from Information literacy programs where it allow them to

become more skills and knowledgeable to searching for information. According to Lin and

Tsai (2012) found that students who were able to use the information discovered in
preliminary online searches were more successful at accessing a deeper level of

information than those who did not. It was recommended that instruction on the skills
needed to search online content be included in courses so as develop effective Web-based

learning. It shown from orientation program from ILP make student know how to access
the internet for searching the information from online sources and make students experts

and improve the library skills.

Benefit to the staffs from ILP are they will be send to the trainings such as
workshop, conference and etc. to learn skills in delivering information to users where it

allow them to build their confident level when dealing with users. This is because today

libraries are no longer the primary sources of information (Campbell and Campos, 2010).
Librarians will not be providing face-to-face service to users because “users will define

for themselves the information literacy skills they require; and rigorous assessment of
information literacy programs required” (Campbell 2010:74). When old literature is

available in the new formats, the library continues to spend resources based on information
about users' habits and preferences (Ashmore and Szurek, 2008). This is because users

will come to see librarians for asking the new format of old literature.

Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia (PNM) have outline the nine from 33 activities
about information literacy. It is show that IL is important to library because library can get

benefits from the IL Programs. This is because develop a networking of partners in
promoting information create and develop online information literacy programmes with a

view to encourage and develop a society and a culture that is rich in knowledge. Library

also can implement online information literacy programmes to create a Malaysian
information literacy database of reading programmes, research, experts and reading

activities carried out at the national level and implement online search and information
skills courses and workshops. The benefits of this planning will make user to like to attend

library and appreciate the library as ‘Knowledge Centre”.

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