The majority of incoming undergraduate Arts students at the University of the Western Cape come from South African historically disadvantaged black schools. Because of enormous varying secondary school experiences and competencies as well as a lack of exposure to computers as well as school or public libraries students are deprived of the basic information skills. A study as part of a PhD was done to assess the exposure to information literacy training at school level, computer and library skills as well as the level of information literacy of 483 respondents before and after they completed...
The majority of incoming undergraduate Arts students at the University of the Western Cape come from South African historically disadvantaged black sc...
