Role of Library Professional Association in Enhancing Information Literacy Programme

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Keisham Sangeeta Devi
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Literacy Programme ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Usable Knowledge ◽  
Global Information Society ◽  
Available Information

It has been agreed that information is key to developments in the 21st century. Thus, information serves as one of the fundamental resources and indispensable in all spheres of life of the civilized society. Information is considered as an important factor for the development of any society. Today in this age of information society, it is essential part of Library and Information Professionals to take active role in imparting information literacy to the citizen at large to keep them up-to-date in their life and continue lifelong learning. Information literacy and lifelong learning have a strategic, mutually reinforcing relationship with each other that is critical to the success of every individual, organization, and nation-state in the global information society. In this regard, the present article is an attempt to highlight that Library Professionals association should take a unique role in gathering, organizing, and coordinating access to the best available information for the organization, understanding the critical need of turning that information into usable knowledge.

scholarly journals Will Minority Languages Survive in the Information Society? An Israeli Point of View

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-218
Author(s):  
Chaim Seymour
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
National Language ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Scientific Language ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Language Technology ◽  
Hebrew Language ◽  
Global Information Society

The article raises the role of the minority national language within a global information society. The Hebrew language is a unique case of the revival of a classic language. In the early twentieth century a project was carried out to establish a technical university in what was then called Palestine The founders preferred to teach in Gem an, the dominant international scientific language technology. They daimed that Hebrew was unsuitable for scientific discourse. The opposition succeeded in defeating the founders and thus guaranteed the use of Hebrew in the fields of science and technology. The changing relationships and tension between the local language and the international lingua franca is still subject to debate today and the events of the so-called language war have much to teach us.

scholarly journals Information literacy on the political agenda: An analysis of Estonian national strategic documents

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-201
Author(s):  
Kertti Merimaa ◽  
Krista Lepik
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Explicit Representations

There is a controversy: while information literacy (IL) has been recognized to have a central role in operating efficiently in the information society, previous studies have noted that in the European political agenda, the actual wording of IL is rarely used. This study pays a close visit to 15 Estonian information policy–related national strategic documents from 1998 to 2014 to understand the emerging role of IL in these documents. Qualitative text analysis and critical discourse analysis are employed to analyse both explicit representations and implicit conceptualizations of IL, linked to social determinants, ideologies, and effects from the dominating discourse. Considering the differ-ent “faces” of IL (Bruce, 1997), one can see that while the dominant approach to IL is technologically oriented, few other concepts of IL can be detected. Discursively, the information society is defined through economic and technological fields, on the wave of technological determinism and neoliberal-ism, with some social equality.

The Role of EBM and Nursing Informatics in Rural Australia

2009 ◽  
pp. 230-238
Author(s):  
Daniel Carbone
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Nursing Informatics ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Rural Australia

The purpose of this chapter is to broadly discuss the need for enhanced evidence-based medicine (EBM) by nurses in the context of rural Australia and the role that nursing informatics and an informed strategy could facilitate in making such need a feasible reality. First, the introduction highlights current time gaps between health discoveries and eventual practice and the potential for information technology to positively affect this gap. Then, the need for nurses to take an active role in evidence-based medicine in rural settings is argued. The link between information literacy and evidence-based medicine is consequently presented and gaps in knowledge regarding nursing informatics training are highlighted. Concluding with the argument that to achieve evidence-based research and eventual use, there needs to be a purposeful health informatics learning strategy that recognises the role of computer and information literacy.

Information literacy in Nigerian universities trends, challenges and opportunities

2016 ◽  
Vol 117 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 343-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chinwe V. Anunobi ◽  
Scholastica Ukwoma
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Regulatory Body ◽  
Literacy Programme ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Library Education ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Regulatory Bodies ◽  
Programme Content ◽  
Evaluation And Monitoring

Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine the information literacy trends, challenges and opportunities in Nigerian universities, With focus on its characteristics; content and adequacy for students’ information literacy development and lifelong learning. The effort to ensure that university students are empowered to acquire the competences needed for all round education and lifelong learning has been the primary focus of the university curriculum. University regulatory body in Nigeria emphasised the need to provide students with a study plan which provides them with capacity to locate information resources, access, evaluate and use them in legally acceptable manner. The programme is differently captioned with varying contents. With evolving approach to literacy, this study was designed to determine whether the programme has evolved from use of library education to information literacy or still at its traditional mode. Design/methodology/approach Descriptive survey research method was adopted for the study. The population consists of federal and state university libraries in Nigeria. The characteristics, content and adequacy of the programme as offered in Nigerian universities was the measure to determine the type of literacy. Questionnaire derived from literature and personal experience was designed to elicit information. A copy of the questionnaire was sent to each university that constituted the sample of the study by mail and telephone interviews were given to the heads of the sampled libraries. Findings It was discovered that majority of the universities studied were yet to consolidate the library literacy programme offered in their universities. Hence, the provision of information literacy content is yet to be realised in Nigerian universities. Practical implications There should be constant evaluation and monitoring of the programme by the regulatory bodies to ensure that the programme is reviewed at the appropriate time and that they also abide to the minimum standard. Originality/value For the effective implementation of programme to reflect the current development in research and information sourcing, retrieval and use; collaboration in content development as well as teaching between faculty and library; increasing or splitting the programme content to accommodate first year and higher level undergraduates, the regulatory bodies like Librarians’ Registration Council of Nigeria should ensure constant evaluation of the programme.

Opening other windows: a political economy of ‘openness’ in a global information society

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (S1) ◽  
pp. 69-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER MAY
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Free Software ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
Global Information Society ◽  
Lewis Mumford

AbstractAlthough analysis in IR and IPE has increasingly started to focus on non-state actors and the information society, the role of the legal architecture of the Internet has been relatively under-analysed in terms of the structural power around communication interfaces. In this article I suggest the work of Lewis Mumford offers a useful lens for thinking about the political economy of technological change in an information society. I set out the role of intellectual property rights as the legal form of the global information society, and suggest a major challenge to this legal form is the idea of ‘openness’, specifically in the realm of open-source and/or free software. I examine this issue in the realm of (so-called) informational development, where major proprietary players (predominantly Microsoft) have been confronted by an increasingly vibrant open-source alternative. The open-source and free-software movements can be analysed as an emerging example of a globalised ‘double movement’, seeking to re-embed the tools of informational development in a societal realm of information, establishing in Mumford’s terms a ‘democratic technics’ as a reaction to the programme of information and knowledge commodification spurred by the TRIPs agreement.

Information Literacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Lairenlakpam Shanta Meitei
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Computer Literacy ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Role Of Information

This article discusses the need and importance of information literacy as an essential component in information society. The article highlights the role of information and information technology as well as the relationship between information and literacy. This article also studies the impact of ICT in rural areas and examines the awareness of the term like, information, information literacy, computer literacy etc. in the rural communities in Manipur, India. Further, it elaborates the need for information literacy and challenges faced by the rural communities in the global information environment.

scholarly journals Sustainable Feedback: Students’ and Tutors’ Perceptions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerry Geitz ◽  
Desirée Joosten - Ten Brinke ◽  
Paul Kirschner
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Individual Behavior ◽  
First Year ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Learning Skills

Feedback has been shown to substantially influence students’ learning. However, not everything characterized as feedback is effective. Sustainable feedback places students in an active role in which they generate and use feedback from peers, self or others and aims at developing lifelong learning skills. First-year higher education students and tutors received sustainable feedback during their problem-based learning. To gain insights into how they perceived the sustainable feedback, students were probed via structured, open-ended questionnaires. While all participants positively valued the feedback, their personal characteristics, previous experience with feedback and concomitant perceptions appeared to have greatly influenced both tutors’ and students’ specific, individual behavior and responses. Conclusion is that sustainable feedback requires an evolving role of students and tutors with respect to sharing their perceptions of what feedback is, understanding the value and importance of feedback contributions of all participants, and developing the necessary skills to ask questions and give feedback.

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