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About Information Literacy

STEP 1: STARTING out

STEP 2: FINDING

Information finding tools:

- Catalogue

- DDC (Dewey) system

- The Internet

- Databases (incl CD Rom)

Searching techniques:

- Boolean Logic

AND operator

OR operator

NOT operator

- Truncation/wildcards

- Phrase searching

Information sources:

- Dictionaries

- Encyclopaedias

- Atlases

- Books

- Periodicals/Journals

- Newspapers

- Audio-visual

- Internet

- Broadcast media

- Grey literature

- Conference proceedings

- Maps

- Government publications

- Standards

- Museums

- Archives

- Theses and dissertations

- Quiz

STEP 3: EVALUATE

STEP 4: Legal & ethical USE

STEP 5: COMMUNICATE


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The NOT operator

You use the NOT operator to exclude certain information from your results. This operator will give you fewer results.

For example:

Put the two words together like this: Anorexia NOT Bulimia - you will only retrieve documents that include the keyword "Anorexia". All articles with the word "Bulimia" will be excluded from your results.

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