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Algorithmic Literacy of Polish Students in Social Sciences and Humanities

ECIL 2023 /

The widespread use and impact of algorithms on almost every aspect of the individual and society is a significant challenge to the modern world. For effective and informed functioning in today’s societies, we need to develop algorithmic literacy (Iwasiński & Furman, 2022). So far there have been several studies aimed at defining and operationalizing this […]

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Teaching Students to Navigate Externalist and Internalist Approaches in the History of Science

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Information literacy supports higher education learners in becoming conversant in scholarship, including “sources of evidence, methods, and modes of discourse” (ACRL, 2015, p. 20). Grounded in their own expert practices, academics often have difficulty identifying challenges faced by students (Riegler, 2020), including engaging with disciplinary information. Drawing from research on publishing practices, this paper identifies

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Students’ Perceptions of Using Artificial Intelligence in Written Assignments – Is Information Literacy Still Needed?

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Writing a short literature review at university can be a useful assignment to develop a variety of academic (Sharples, 2022) and information literacy (IL) skills. However, recent technological developments have provided students with a new shortcut, artificial intelligence (AI), which can provide a coherent, albeit somewhat technical and stilted output (Sharples, 2022, p. 1122). As

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Information Literacy Workshops from On-Site to Online – Lessons Learned

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This best practice case presents the development of information literacy workshops embedded in a bachelor’s thesis course when moving the teaching to an online environment. On-site information literacy (IL) lecture on the principles of information searching, presentation of the most important databases and hands-on information search training given by an academic librarian had been part

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Transfer Students, Transferring Skills: Continuing Library Information Literacy Among Students From College to University Environments

ECIL 2023 /

Published research regarding the differences in the impact of services, resources, methods, and tools between the college and university library environment in the United States is, overall, lacking. The methods for transferring knowledge of information literacy practices between smaller, often two-year, college institutions and the progression through the remaining four-year environment of the university brings

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Innovative Information Literacy Support for Academic Students – We Got their Backs

ECIL 2023 /

Demand for ChangeThe information specialists in Tritonia Academic Library, a joint library in a multilingual environment, are used to finding new and innovative ways to support students in the field of information literacy (IL). Our information specialists have given hands on tutorials, lessons on request, and one credit courses in IL for both first-year students

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Data Literacy in Public Libraries in Croatia: An Empirical Study

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IntroductionData literacy is defined as “a specific skill set and knowledge base, which empowers individuals to transform data into information and into actionable knowledge by enabling them to access, interpret, critically assess, manage, and ethically use data” (Koltay, 2017, p. 10). It has become an important professional as well as civic skill necessary for functioning

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Visualizing Online Search Processes for Information Literacy Education

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Nowadays, the web is where we most often search for information, and generalist search engines are the access point and filter that lead us in the overwhelming ocean of digital documents. One key challenge for current Information Literacy (IL) education is understanding how young people search online and interact with search engines. While algorithms grow

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How Do Instruction Librarians Continue Learning New Concepts and Skills throughout their Careers? Stories and Best Practices From North American Instruction Librarians

ECIL 2023 /

Introduction & Literature Review Instruction librarians are at the forefront of introducing learners to new concepts and skills such as evaluation strategies, searching techniques, and trends in scholarly communication. But how do instruction librarians themselves learn new concepts and skills? Especially if they have been a professional for a significant amount of time and have

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The Information Literacy Practices of LGBTQ+ Students’ Self-Tracking: Attitudes to Data Collection, Data Privacy and Data Sharing

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This paper reports on a study that aimed to understand what self-tracking practices LGBTQ+ students engage in and why; and to reveal how these information literacy practices connect with their LGBTQ+ identities. LGBTQ+ refers to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community, with the plus standing in for a wide range of other identities

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