• MARA University of Technology

• IMC 111

Introduction to Information Skills Week 1 Introduction Many students come to University with different levels of research skills. Some will not have used a Library Catalogue before, others will be unfamiliar with journals and how to search the information held within them.. The Information Skills Course will show you: ❖ how to develop search strategies and understand the importance of keywords for retrieving relevant information for your assignments. ❖ how to search for books and journals using the Library Catalogue (OPAC). ❖ what journals are and be able to differentiate between different types of journals. ❖ how to search for journal articles using online databases both on and off-campus and how to access the full text electronic version. ❖ how to access key web-based resources through the Library web pages. ❖ the importance of evaluating the quality of resources. ❖ how to reference the resources you have used.