
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