Hidden Greenlands

2011 ◽  
pp. 61-73
Author(s):  
Frank Menchaca
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
College And University ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Classroom Assignment ◽  
Age Studies ◽  
Specific Learning

This chapter considers the role of libraries and educational publishers in the information age. Studies show that, for most college and university students, the trigger for research remains the classroom assignment. Tasks associated with specific learning objectives—writing a paper, preparing an interpretive reading, engaging in historical or statistical analysis—still motivate students to engage in research. What has changed is the fact that students no longer rely on librarians, libraries, or traditional publishers for information resources. They go directly to search engines. Today’s learners are, however, quickly overwhelmed and, despite being “digital natives,” struggle to evaluate information and organize it to build ideas. The ability of publishers, librarians, and libraries to address this issue will determine their relevancy in the 21st century and, perhaps, the success of students themselves in the information age. This chapter reviews a wide variety of literature and experiential data on information literacy, findability, metadata, and use of library resources and proposes how all players can re-think their roles.

scholarly journals Information Literacy: Past Approaches and Present Challenges

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Moore
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Information Problem Solving ◽  
Information Skills ◽  
Future Learning

Interest in information literacy is increasing as the information age challenges educators to keep abreast of new developments in subject matter and technology. In this article, past approaches to teaching aspects of information literacy are reviewed and their implications for future learning and teaching are discussed. The role of collaboration between teachers and librarians is mentioned and information problem solving is examined as a context for developing thinking skills essential to information literacy. Professional development for both educators and librarians is seen as crucial to success in implementing the National Curriculum with respect to information skills.

Metaliteracy in Academic Libraries

2019 ◽  
pp. 246-264
Author(s):  
Shiva Kanaujia Sukula
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Stepping Stones ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Jawaharlal Nehru

Metaliteracy is very significant as it recognizes the conventional information skills. The framework of metaliteracy is staged on information literacy including new facets. The relevance of metaliteracy for the students is crucial in developing meta-literate learners. Discerning the goals and various learning objectives are concrete competencies and metaliteracy for the learning are the basic components. The elements of information literacy have been associated with social media in recent times. Digital literacy is accompanied with visual literacy as well as cyberliteracy in developing the metaliteracy resources and environment. In this current age, where the information has its own value in all the known and unknown contexts, the research is based on retrospective and the latest information. The discussion on the application of metaliteracy in learning and stake-holders considers as a reflective space with the analytical and observational thinking for the learning. The role of the librarian is instrumental while the creation of content takes place keeping the metaliteracy aspects in planning. The experiences of networked information, as well as engagement of students, are the stepping stones for the creation of learning spaces. The role of the learner as participants, contributor and metaliteracy and learner-centered design is associated with metaliteracy and course-design. In this context, the metaliteracy assignments are significant, the metaliteracy assignments are kind of a method to motivate the learners and find out hidden knowledge. The chapter provides an example of the Case of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. It discusses the methods applied at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Central Library, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for inducing information literacy and metaliteracy among the scholars to include various training programs, workshops, etc. The details of various activities are discussed as various training programs which are focused on educating the users about library resources, accessing them, etc.

The Role of the School Library in Empowering Visually Impaired Children With Lifelong Information Literacy Skills

2018 ◽  
pp. 245-271
Author(s):  
Iwu-James Juliana ◽  
Roland Izuagbe ◽  
Victoria Itsekor ◽  
Michael Opeoluwa Fagbohun ◽  
Aderonke Asaolu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
School Library ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

Libraries provide the platform on which successful education systems are built through the provision of access to information. The ability to provide equal and nondiscriminatory access to library resources and services is the hallmark of modern librarianship. School libraries must be prepared to serve children with specific disabilities, such as visually impaired students who will need special types of technology and other specialized services. This preparation is even more important with the push for inclusion and the corresponding increase in children with disabilities attending regular (vs. specialized) schools and utilizing the school library resources. Thus, this chapter examines the role of school libraries in empowering visually impaired children with lifelong information literacy skills as a part of inclusive education.

Role of Libraries in Promoting Health Information Literacy in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 366-383
Author(s):  
Navkiran Kaur ◽  
Satinderbir Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
User Communities ◽  
Medical Libraries ◽  
Health Information Resources

Good health is essential for every human being. Health information is essential for maintaining good health, preventing diseases as well as making sound health decisions. People can only be able to access, utilize, and benefit from healthcare services if they have proper information about these services. It is here that health information literacy comes into play. The information related to every aspect of health is easily available today, but the main problem here lies in finding, selecting, and using relevant health information and preventing misinformation. Libraries have a pivotal role to play here. This chapter is mainly concerned with identifying the gaps in the provision of health information to the general public and the role of health information literacy in paving the way of filling up these gaps. It will be helpful in knowing the current standing of public and medical libraries in providing health information resources and services. It will also suggest the role of these libraries of India in promoting health information literacy among their respective user communities.

Social Traffic Function Study: The Empirical from IT Reform to Trip Behavior Change of Urban Residents

2014 ◽  
Vol 641-642 ◽  
pp. 896-900
Author(s):  
Ya Ting Li ◽  
Wei Zhu Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Effect Analysis ◽  
Internal Relation

Through the mediating effect analysis of society informatization, discuss the internal relation in the influence of IT transformation on residents' travel behavior change, and then find the influence path. Proposes the hypothesis research model and verifies it empirically based on the “IT transformation and public travel” behavior survey in Tianjin (663). The result shows that IT transformation not only has a directly marked impact on changing travel behavior of residents; information literacy and information resources play a role of mediating effect between the IT transformation and residents’ travel behavior change.

Deconstructing the Information Age in Information Literacy

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Keenan
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

This presentation explores the role of the Information Age in Information Literacy. The Information Age asserts that the recent proliferation of information and communication technology has fundamentally altered our society. Librarians have responded to the Information Age in part through developing Information Literacy. This project critically examines the relationship between the two concepts.Cette présentation explore le rôle de l'ère de l'information dans la maîtrise de l'information. L'ère de l'information se traduit par la récente prolifération des technologies de l'information et des communications qui ont fondamentalement altéré la société. Les bibliothécaires ont répondu à cet ère de l'information en partie en développant des techniques de maîtrise de l'information. Ce projet examine d'un point de vue critique le lien entre ces deux concepts. 

scholarly journals Added Value or Essential Instruction?: Librarians in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Biando Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
First Century ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
College And University ◽  
University Setting

In recent years, we have seen a proliferation of the amounts of information that we’re exposed to, and our ability to critically navigate that information hasn’t kept pace with the speed at which it’s coming at us. As information professionals we must ask ourselves—what is our role in helping students and patrons navigate information? What value can we add in a world where information is increasingly complex, contradictory, and competitive? Are our traditional methods of delivering information literacy enough? This paper looks at the evolution of information literacy instruction from the skills in the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (2000) through the newly adopted Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (2016), using examples from my own experience as a reference and teaching librarian. I will focus on how the ways in which we reach students has changed—from one-shot information literacy sessions to more in-depth interactions with students under the new Framework. I will argue, ultimately, that to truly serve students in our current information age, librarians must consider moving even deeper into the classroom, developing and teaching information literacy and critical thinking skills for credit in the college and university setting, and I will highlight a course I developed at my own institution.How will this change what we do in the classroom?

ROLE OF LIBRARIANS IN TEACHING INFORMATION LITERACY IN ZIMBABWEAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tinashe Mugwisi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Information Skills ◽  
The University

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the Internet have to a large extent influenced the way information is made available, published and accessed. More information is being produced too frequently and information users now require certain skills to sift through this multitude in order to identify what is appropriate for their purposes. Computer and information skills have become a necessity for all academic programmes. As libraries subscribe to databases and other peer-reviewed content (print and electronic), it is important that users are also made aware of such sources and their importance. The purpose of this study was to examine the teaching of information literacy (IL) in universities in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and the role played by librarians in creating information literate graduates. This was done by examining whether such IL programmes were prioritised, their content and how frequently they were reviewed. An electronic questionnaire was distributed to 12 university libraries in Zimbabwe and 21 in South Africa. A total of 25 questionnaires were returned. The findings revealed that IL was being taught in universities library and non-library staff, was compulsory and contributed to the term mark in some institutions. The study also revealed that 44 per cent of the total respondents indicated that the libraries were collaborating with departments and faculty in implementing IL programmes in universities. The study recommends that IL should be an integral part of the university programmes in order to promote the use of databases and to guide students on ethical issues of information use.

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