Did we captivate them? Perceptions of second-year students about the library's information literacy online tutorials
Date
2013-01
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UNISA Press
Abstract
At Stellenbosch University the Department of Information Science is responsible for the
mandatory Information Skills 172 and 174 programmes for first-year students in four
faculties. In 2009 the faculty librarians were asked to create screencast online tutorials on
certain library skills, and in 2010 a focus-group discussion was conducted to determine
what students' perceptions were of the influence of these tutorials on their ability to find
information for assignments. The findings indicate that the tutorials were not as successful
as the library had hoped, and that the library should work at not only improving the
tutorials, but also bringing them to the attention of the students.
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CITATIONS: Visser, N. 2013. Did we captivate them? Perceptions of second-year students about the library's information literacy online tutorials. Mousaion, 31(2):78-91.
CITATIONS: Visser, N. 2013. Did we captivate them? Perceptions of second-year students about the library's information literacy online tutorials. Mousaion, 31(2):78-91.
Keywords
Academic libraries, Information literacy, Library orientation, Library research, Screencasts, Tutorials, online
Citation
Visser, N. 2013. Did we captivate them? Perceptions of second-year students about the library's information literacy online tutorials. Mousaion, 31(2):78-91.