UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG

1. Undergraduate Information Literacy program outline
Library Skills:
•    Create a Library Pin
•    Search the e-Wits catalog for books/Journals by Title, Journal Name, Author, Subject etc.
•    Process Short Loan/Overnight Bookings
•    Renew Books
•    Place Holds on books
•    Carry out basic Database, e-Journal and e-Book searches
•    Carry out the above tasks on the e-Wits Mobile catalogue
•    Make use of Subject Portals/ Libguides for finding information

2. Postgraduate Information Literacy Program
The Objective of the Post graduate programme is to enable students to:
•    Create a Library Pin
•    Use Web of Knowledge, SCOPUS  and Nexus to carry out literature reviews
•    Use InCites to identify top researchers, a research supervisor, collaborators and possible funding sources
•    Use Journal Citation Reports to identify high impact journals
•    Use Subject Portals/Libguides to identify existing Data Sets
•    Use InterLibrary Loans system to request materials not available at Wits
•    Teach the use of Online Bibliographic Tools supported by the Library i.e. Zotero
•    Demonstrate e-Thesis and Dissertations