Description: The Information Literacy Course is generic information skills for all incoming new FIS students (starting in May & September) and First Year undergraduates of MBBS and BMS (starting in September) which being arranged as part of the curriculum programme.

Objective: The main objectives of IL course are to provide opportunities and resources for all students to develop information literacy and information searching knowledge and skills and to assist in the integration of information literacy into the teaching and learning process.

Program:
1. Introduction to LRC 

• It is an overview of the Library services, information resources and facilities: smartcard is the library card, opening hours, borrowing, renewing and returning of books, self-services etc. Guides on how to read the books' label call numbers and find books on the shelves. Introduction to PrimoVE (the online library catalogue). 

• Duration: approximately 1 hour in IT cluster.

2. Information Literacy 

• Learning to use information effectively is a key part of university education.

• It is a class in teaching students on how to use the medical database, and getting familiarise with using login credential of Newcastle University.

• In this class, students will learn how to identify relevant information resources; how to search for information; how to formulate a basic information search strategy; how to create a search query; how to use Boolean Operators; how to critically evaluate information sources; how to find out which databases are best for your subject areas and how to search them.

• This class is an essential class for MBBS Year 1. Teaching library skills and a process by which the students can be guided in their solution of finding information.

• Duration: Approximately 2 hours at IT Cluster with exercises provide detailed instruction how to do search.

3. Introduction to EndNote

• Newcastle University provides all students with the Reference software which can be used on/off campus to assist student in organising their reference sources easily and systematically  -  No need to type reference lists manually in your MS Word!

• The EndNote class is to teach students to use EndNote from basic such as to create a new EndNote file, familiarise with EndNote tools and features, learn to export the references from database into EndNote, insert citation into Microsoft Word, learn to use different reference style and etc.

• Duration: Approximately 1 hour at IT Cluster with exercises provide detailed instruction how to create the EndNote file.