Information Literacy

Prepared by:
Girlie Rose Antonio &
Rafael Lou Carlos Chinchilla, RPm
January
2019
How to become a well informed individual?
• Reading books and other printed materials
• Listening to the radio or watching news
• Asking questions from reliable resource persons
 People who access information

Students Scientist Lawyers

Artist

Media Journalist &

Teachers Practitioner Reporters
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 Card Catalog
Contains the information about the material you need such as the author’s name, title of the book and the
section of the library where you can find the material

ADD A FOOTER
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 Card Catalog
• Author Catalog
Title
Author Publishing
Information

Related
Subject
 Card Catalog
• Title Catalog Title
Author Publishing
Information

Related
Subject
 Card Catalog
• Subject Catalog
Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)
Classification of Books in the Library
• Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)
Classification of Books in the Library
Library of Congress
 Sections of the Library
• General Reference Sections
• General reference book such as Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, thesaurus, and almanac
• Circulation Section
• Text books that cover different subject area. Pocket books and novels. Fiction and Nonfiction
are also found here
• Periodical Section
• Newspaper, Magazines and Journals; for library use only
• Filipiniana Section
• Printed materials written by Filipino authors about the Philippines and published in the
Philippines

ADD A FOOTER
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 Other Sources of Information
• Theses and Dissertation
• Interviews
• Museum
• Primary sources
• Secondary sources
• Internet
 Terms to Remember
• URL – Uniform Resource Locator
• www – world wide web
• edu – stands for educational institution
• gov – represents government agency
• org – pertain to an organization
• Ending two-letter code refers to the country where the website
is located
 Finding Sources of Information in a Book
• Table of Contents
• Helps you locate a specific topic in a book, also displays page number
• Index
• Search for the specific concept, terms, names presented with page
numbers
• Glossary
• Found at the back, provides a list of concepts or terms with its
corresponding meaning
• Bibliography
• Sources of author which the author used in writing a book
 Proper Citation
• American Psychological Association (APA) –
social sciences
 Proper Citation
• The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) – for
publication: grammar, usage, and documentation
 Proper Citation
• Modern Language Association (MLA) – liberal
arts and humanities
Identifying Relevant Information
• Printed materials – author’s profile, preface, (thesis or
dissertation) abstract or a brief description of the study, or
book’s publisher
• Films – reviews, profiles of director and scriptwriters
• Interviews – experts with actual experience

*check information if it is aligned to your purpose and objective

of the research being undertaken
 How to Communicate Information
• Talking or writing
• Visually
• (School) recitation, submit written output
 Ethical Use of Information
Citing of sources (footnotes, endnotes, and bibliography)
• Citation
• Plagiarism
• Copyright
• Intellectual property
• Public domain and fair use
 Overall…
• A researcher can get information by conducting an interview
from a reliable source.
• For historical information, a researcher can visit a museum
where relics, artifacts, and other historical documents are kept.
• Using the card catalog is useful when locating a book in the
library.
 Overall…
• When researching online, an information literate person should
be familiar with the correct key words or hashtags related to the
topic being searched.
• Owners of copyrighted materials should be properly
acknowledged or cited when the material is used in another’s
written work.