Assessment Task 1 as a Reference Point:

CULINL301A – Develop and use information literacy skills and ICAWEB201A use social media tools for collaboration and engagement

Teanji Brown 15/04/2014

Assessment Task 1

Questions to be answered are:

1.      What is your client’s research question and what is the real information need?

The question I have been asked, what is the life cycle and migratory patterns of the Short Tailed-Shearwater commonly known as the Mutton Bird? The Information they needed was lifespan, the route they take, where they nest and what they eat.

2.      Why is the material needed?

Because they wanted to write a brief overview about the Mutton Bird.

3.      Who is the client?

A hobby ornithologist who was interested in the Mutton Bird.

4.      How recent should the information be?

Relatively recent, though because the short-tailed shearwater is a seasonal bird and has had quite a few hardships in recent years, finding information is quite difficult.

5.      What type and what amount of information are required?

They needed an image of the migratory pattern, data on specie numbers, adult bird’s lifespans etc because it is a brief overview I have given them a website URL to parks and wildlife who are a good source of information.

6.      When does the client require the information?

The client said they were quite busy and so wanted me to email them the information I had found within a few days.

7.      Where has the client already looked?

They said they had only really looked in books because they are quite computer illiterate and so he/her wanted me to find more recent information online.

8.      Where did the client hear of this?

The client walks their local beach all year round, early in the morning at dawn and in the afternoon at dusk, and had been doing it for over a decade an every year they noticed huge numbers of birds flying out in the Derwent and some washing up on their beach around March, April and May, and because my client wasn’t into technology, they decided to ask the question with the little knowledge they had, which was the name of the bird (Mutton Bird) at the local library they visit. After some conversation the client said they wanted this information so they could send a letter about it to their grandchild overseas.