The Information
Literacy Prize presentation took place last Tuesday in DkIT Library. The event,
which was attended by DkIT President Denis Cummins as well as other members of
staff and students at the Institute, saw Oksana Redina win the prize for her
excellent paper on social care students’ attitudes to ageing. Fourth year
students Lawrence Torris and Yeukai Chikwamba were impressive runners up.
The Library
in DkIT has been giving training in information literacy skills for over a
decade. The Information Literacy Prize is a new initiative set up both to recognize
students for their information literacy skills and to allow Library staff to
find out more about how information literacy skills are being applied by students.
Students were invited to submit papers already created as part of their course which
were examined from the viewpoint of information literacy by an
assessment panel including Library
staff and external assessors Ellen Breen, Sub Librarian in Information Literacy
(DCU Library), and Dr. John Dallat (CELT, DkIT).
Oksana
Redina, a fourth year social care student, won the first prize of an iPad for
her paper on social care
students’ attitudes to older people and the ageing process. Oksana is now about to graduate from
DkIT. Prizes were also awarded to Yeukai Chikwamba, a fourth year science
student, for her paper on probiotics, and to Lawrence Torris, also in fourth
year, for his paper on exercise. All three projects evidence critical thinking
skills and showcase their authors’ abilities and potential in their chosen
fields.
DkIT President Denis Cummins when awarding the
prize noted that two of the prize winners are international students and spoke
of the huge contribution that international students have made to DkIT.
