When students first start their studies, they have much to learn. Even though the new environment can be a bit overwhelming, newcomers should learn about the services that help them cope with their studies (Reed, 2020). This is a situation in which we should find new ways to effectively encourage and support learning. Functional learning, […]
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Information literacy is a tenet of school librarianship (ALA & AECT, 1988, 1998; AASL, 2018a, 2018b). Although most school librarians were once classroom teachers, these individuals do not always possess adequate information literacy skills (Burchard & Myers, 2019) even though it has been shown that the students of teachers, who possess these skills, have higher
Background The Library of the Law and Administration Faculty of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow is currently preparing a complex reform of its website and profiles in social media in order to comply with the best benchmarks in this domain. This operation has been preceded by a two-stage study of Library’s users’ information needs and
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Librarians at a southern New England Community College designed a freshman-level college course intended to teach information literacy skills to students within the context of their majors through a linked Learning Community. It is critically important for students to understand research within the context of their fields. As they progress through their education, students will
Many instructors expect that students will develop and demonstrate their information literacy through course-based assignments but are often frustrated with the results, because students (as novices) and instructors (as disciplinary experts) are seemingly speaking two different languages. In this workshop, we model activities that we have delivered for several cohorts of course instructors centered on
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Objectives From an Information Literacy perspective to improve existing or create new services, we propose to study the development of individual and collective informational skills, both for employees and users, in order to contribute to transform Social Protection Organizations in France in learning organizations in a new collective intelligence and organizational intelligence) dynamic. For us,
In the information age, media and information literacy (MIL) has become crucial for work and study. Despite the growing number of various projects and initiatives in the field of MIL, this area of social development is still a relatively new concept for the educational policy of Kazakhstan. The information literacy standards have been developed by
According to Zotero Style Repository, one may choose from 10,377 different citation style languages (Zotero Style Repository, 2023). Although only a limited number of citation styles are widely used, especially in individual disciplines, authors may encounter a further expansion of the number of styles because some journals create their own or modified styles. Such a
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Objectives The process of Design Thinking (DT) is widely used in various areas of human activity, including information activities. According to Rak (2022), there are three areas where DT processes can take place. The first and most general and universal applies to entities whose activities are related to broadly understood information activities and information management
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Objectives Students are arguably one of the most-researched populations, including in the context of information literacy (IL). However there is significantly less research on Ph.D. students. Nevertheless, the information competences of doctoral students are crucial factors that impact the efficiency and validity of their research and future career prospects. We will discuss the development of
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