TY  - CONF
N1  - Edited by Abrizah Abdullah et al. Kuala Lumpur: Library and Information Unit, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya, 2007. ISBN:9789834349103.
ID  - myais59
UR  - http://myais.fsktm.um.edu.my/59/
A1  - Szarina Abdullah,  
A1  - Nor Rashimahwati Tarmuchi,  
A1  - Norliya Ahmad Kassim,  
A1  - Mohd. Sharif Mohd. Saad,  
A1  - Rasimah Aripin,  
Y1  - 2007/06/27/
N2  - Ethical use of information is an important component of information literacy, particularly among university students. This paper reports on the finding of a study conducted among university students to identify their information literacy (IL) competency, with specific attention on ?Ethical use of information?. The study used a self-administered questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. Respondents were 1,100 final year students from various disciplines from 4 public and 2 private universities in the Klang Valley of Malaysia. The level of competency was measured by students? ability to identify 3 main things: a) which types of information use require users to acknowledge the information sources, b) which activities are considered plagiarism, and c) which types of information are considered copyrighted. Students need to answer13 item questions. Each answer was assigned scores for the purpose of computing competency levels, namely: 0=wrong answer, 1=beginner, 2=intermediate, 3=advanced. Results of the analysis revealed that majority of the respondents? competency fall under the beginner level (43.4%), followed by the intermediate level (38.0%), and advanced level (18.6%). Other interesting results are obtained by cross-tabulating competency data against various characteristics, such as their information-related activities in the library, the nature of academic assignments, the type of information skills course they have attended, the university where they attended, and other demographic variables. Implications from findings are discussed.
PB  - Library & Information Science Unit, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur
KW  - Information literacy evaluation in Malaysia
KW  -  Information ethics
KW  -  University students.


SN  - 978-983-43491-0-3
TI  - Ethical Use of Information ? How University 
Students Fare

SP  - 319
M2  - Armada Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. ISBN 9789834349103
AV  - none
EP  - 331
T2  - Building An Information Society For All: Proceedings of the International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society, ICOLIS 2007
ER  -