Information Literacy for First Year Students: Lesson 2: Information sources: Current information

• Current information
• Easy to understand
• Photographs and illustrations
• Main purpose is to entertain the reader and often aimed at a specific audience
• Does not contain references

• Fashion: Vogue
• Sport: Sports Illustrator
• Music: Rolling Stone

SA Online newspapers

• Daily information
• Usually contains local news and events 
• Written by authors, journalists and witnesses
• Aimed at the general audience.
• Includes graphic information
• Can be published daily or weekly

• The Star
  
• City Press

Library catalogue: SA online newspapers

• Connected group of pages on the World Wide Webb
• Organisational information (.org)
• Commercial information (.com)
• Educational information (.edu)
• Individual information
• Company information
• Social media
• Information cannot always be verified or checked for accuracy
• Textual information
• Visual information
• Multimedia
• Interactive

• Information is devoted to a single topic or several closely related topics
• Message boards
• Social Media sites
• Academic journals (etc)