scholarly journals The teaching of information literacy skills in Botswana’s Community Secondary Schools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boemo N. Jorosi ◽  
Goitsemang G. Isaac
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
English Language ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
The City

The study investigated the teaching of information literacy skills in select Junior Community Secondary Schools (CJSS) situated in the city of Gaborone, Botswana. Data were gathered from a sample of ten teacher librarians via face-to-face interviews with the aid of a five-question interview schedule. The key findings of the study were: (1) respondents had varying interpretations of. what constituted information literacy skills, (2) a variety of skills were taught under the rubric information literacy skills; (3) by and large, the teaching of information literacy skills was done by teacher-librarians and subject librarians, (4) the main approaches in teaching information literacy skills involved library orientation and the use of the English Language Period, and (5) respondents cited the three challenges, namely, the absence of an office dedicated to school libraries, an exam oriented curriculum and shrinking financial resources.

scholarly journals An investigation into the teaching of information literacy skills by teachers in New Zealand secondary schools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Probert
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Library Media Specialists ◽  
Media Specialists ◽  
Library Media ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
Teacher Librarians

There is very little research looking at how much teachers from any country actually know about information literacy and at how they develop information literacy skills with their students. This contrasts research in recent years which focuses on the influence that school libraries, teacher librarians and/or library media specialists have on student learning. For some time international government and educational bodies, including New Zealand, have recognised that all citizens need skills and processes to enable them to become information literate. This paper reports on findings from a research project which investigated the understanding, knowledge and teaching of information literacy processes of secondary teachers from five urban co-educational state secondary schools.

scholarly journals Gender Equity and eGaming

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley S. J. Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Potential Benefit ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Single Sex ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
Teacher Librarians

Increasingly, schools and libraries are incorporating egaming because of its attraction to youth and its potential benefit for instruction, developing information literacy skills, and facilitating academic success. Although egames are played by most youth, egaming has gender-linked properties: extent of play, choice of games, social interaction in gaming, and novice gaming practice. School libraries are uniquely positioned to provide resources and services to insure gender-equitable gaming experiences: gaming periodicals, opportunities to select and review games, and single sex activities. Emerging trends of casual gaming, mobile egaming, and gaming design offer opportunities that can attract girls, which teacher librarians can leverage.

scholarly journals eGaming? Seriously! for Information Literacy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley S. J. Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Potential Benefit ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
Teacher Librarians

Schools and libraries are considering the incorporation of egaming because of its attraction to youth and its potential benefit for instruction, developing information literacy skills, and facilitating academic success. Although egames are played by most youth, egaming has gender-linked properties, particularly in novice gaming practice. School libraries are uniquely positioned to provide resources and services to insure gender-equitable gaming experiences: gaming periodicals, opportunities to select and review games, collaboration with classroom teachers, and game development. The emerging trends of casual gaming, mobile egaming, and gaming design offer opportunities that attract an ever broader range of students, which teacher librarians can leverage in their services.

Meeting the Information Literacy Skills of Diverse Primary School Pupils Through the School Libraries

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nwachukwu V. N. Nwachukwu V. N. ◽  
◽  
ESKAY, M. Eskay, M. ◽  
Ifeanyichukwu, J.N. Ifeanyichukwu, J.N.
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
Primary School Pupils

scholarly journals Information Literacy Alliances

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verna George ◽  
Paulette Kerr
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
The West ◽  
Informal Observation ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University

Informal observation by University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona librarians and anecdotal evidence from UWI faculty suggested that information literacy skills among students at the UWI Mona are inadequate for university level. Results of an informal survey of IL in select high school libraries in Jamaica indicated school IL programmes were not preparing students adequately. Therefore, the authors propose forging alliances between the University Mona Library and high school libraries to improve IL programmes in the high schools. The paper draws on three recent successful cases of collaboration between the UWI Mona library and high schools. It ends with some recommendations.

scholarly journals Information Literacy Skills in Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1193-1196
Author(s):  
Irfan Tosuncuoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Technological Factors ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
Information Skills ◽  
The Subject

In our modern times, in which the accumulation of knowledge is rapidly increasing, acquiring and developing information skills through education proves to be a lifelong endeavour. The prerequisite for lifelong learning is information literacy. In the process of education, which needs to continue at every stage of life, it is becoming more important that individuals have a wide variety of literacy skills, the most pressing of which is information literacy.  So called skills enable students to learn a language, especially English language effectively.  At the forefront of the basic skills that need to be possessed by people these days, is the finding of information, the use of it and the production of it. From the beginning of the twenty-first century, technological factors have been increasing their dominance in the communication of information as well as in the production of it.  Therefore, students within the education system began to feel the need to develop different literacy skills. By virtue of the current importance of the subject, information literacy has been analysed in detail and problems relevant to the subject have been noted and solutions have been sought.

scholarly journals Profil Literasi Informasi Pustakawan Indonesia

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arief Wicaksono
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Computer Literacy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
Internal And External Factors

Information literacy is one of the competencies of the library profession. Information literacy is needed in the work of librarianship. Reference service, the key determinant of library status in the society, requires competencies in information literacy. The purpose of this study is to find out how librarians in Indonesia meet the requirement of information literacy competencies and what factors affect the mastery of information literacy. This study is a qualitative research with literature survey. Based on the existing literature, the hypothesis was developed that librarians of Indonesia have information literacy skills if their personal development are supported by both internal and external factors. Internal factors comprise motivation (encouragement of work, efforts to achieve success, material and non-material motivation), attitudes towards the profession (job satisfaction, professional satisfaction, and organizational commitment), and other knowledge-skill-attitude (knowledge, computer literacy, digital literacy, and English language skills), educational background, and level of education. While external factors include availability of computers and Internet network, library policy to support the development of information literacy of librarians.

Implementing Information Literacy Skills and Soft Skills for Better Use of Library Resources and Services

2020 ◽  
pp. 214-224
Author(s):  
B. Surendran ◽  
Kishore Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Future Scenario ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Library Profession

Information literacy (IL) is a set of skills that allows us to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the information that we need. IL skills are essential tools that help us successfully plan for the present and future scenario of information. Soft skills are a set of abilities that influence how we interact with each other. Soft skills and IL skills affect every person in every possible situation work, education, entertainment, etc. This chapter highlights the importance of soft skills in library profession, different types of soft skills, why soft skills are important, relevance of information literacy in the ICT era, concepts of information literacy, IL and school libraries, and various types of IL models and standards. Both soft skills and IL skills are essential for library professionals as well as the users, particularly while using the 21st century resources, so that the users will be energized in using the library resources effectively and efficiently.

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