Standards for an information-literate university student

These standards, establishing knowledge, ability and skills of an information literate university student, concern only their studies and professional work in their field. In this sense an information literate university student:

1. is able to comprehend specialist texts in their field of study, abstract the main ideas and similarly write technical texts alone using the findings from the information sources which are cited with respect to authors’ rights and according to the principles of creating a bibliography;
2. knows and follows the key information sources in his/her field of study, can find relevant information on the basis of advanced methods of searching and with respect to the rights and moral aspects of this activity and can organise and preserve information of various types and formats for further use in their professional work;
3. uses sources of numerical and technical information, finds and processes numerical and technical data and uses them in their work;
4. masters his/her native language and is able to use it orally and in writing, knows and uses the terminology of his/her area of study in his/her native and a foreign language, particularly English, and to a level necessary for working with information sources and communicating within the community of the given field;
5. uses generally accessible information and communication technology necessary for searching, processing and presenting information (of various types and formats) related to his/her studies and professional work;
6. is aware of the moral and legal aspects of using information and working with information in accordance with authors’ ethics and authors’ rights.

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