Pursuing Information Literacy

• Author : Emmett Lombard
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 18 February 2010

The primary purpose of Pursuing Information Literacy is to inspire individual thinking and application. The book reviews important information literacy and its social significance and the application of information literacy in a number of different sectors. The future of information literacy is explored in concluding chapters. Philosophical framework and practical approaches Beyond academia; different equations Consistency and comfort as concept; expansion of domain

• Author : Marc Forster
• Publisher : Facet Publishing
• Release : 03 April 2017

This book explains how information literacy (IL) is essential to the contemporary workplace and is fundamental to competent, ethical and evidence-based practice. In today’s information-driven workplace, information professionals must know when research evidence or relevant legal, business, personal or other information is required, how to find it, how to critique it and how to integrate it into one’s knowledge base. To fail to do so may result in defective and unethical practice which could have devastating consequences for

• Author : Scott Walter,Dawn Shinew
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 06 April 2004

Much-needed guidance for updating your teaching skills and practices! Information Literacy Instruction for Educators: Professional Knowledge for an Information Age explores various methods of instructing pre-service teachers and administrators on how to locate new subject matter and distinguish between fact, opinion, and rhetoric across a

• Author : Serap Kurbanoglu,Sonja Spiranec,Esther Grassian,Diane Mizrachi,Ralph Catts
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 13 December 2014

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2014, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in October 2014. The 93 revised full papers presented together with two keynotes and one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 283 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theoretical framework; related concepts; research; rights and ethics; children; higher education; education and instruction; assessment and evaluation; libraries; different aspects.

• Author : Joanna M. Burkhardt,Mary C. MacDonald,Andrée J. Rathemacher
• Publisher : American Library Association
• Release : 15 August 2022

"Covering the basics of planning, collecting, and evaluating, each of the 50 standards-based exercises in this book address one or more of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and promote conceptual and applied skills via active learning, problem-based learning, and resource-based learning."--[back cover]

• Author : Amruth G. Kumar
• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Release : 30 September 2018

This book presents empirical evidence that the information skills of students of higher learning institutions can be improved using a set of personal and environmental variables. Using a judiciously planned and scientifically carried out study, it represents a great contribution in addressing the learning crisis that the Google generation face. The results of the study offer great hope for teachers and students at higher education institutions in an information overloaded society. Through its simplicity in presentation, meticulously planned procedure, and

• Author : Dorothy Anne Warner
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 30 June 2008

Have you ever worried that literature on library instruction deals more with methods of assessing student attitude than student learning? If so, you'll be glad to know someone is doing something about it! Eight unique disciplinary modules are presented, each identifying a series of information literacy objectives developed in accordance with Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives. A substantive curriculum map embedded within each module lists the sequence of courses required for the disciplinary major and the level at which the

• Author : Mark Hepworth,Geoff Walton
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 22 September 2009

Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning is highly beneficial to those who teach or train people and need to develop systematic ways of using information sources and tools to help them participate in inquiry based learning. Whether at school, college, university or work people need to use the wealth of information around them effectively. They need to find things out, assemble, process, evaluate, manage as well as communicate information. Increasingly a fundamental part of being information literate and an independent

• Author : Serap Kurbanoğlu
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 15 August 2022

• Author : Dora Sales,Maria Pinto
• Publisher : Chandos Publishing
• Release : 26 September 2016

Pathways into Information Literacy and Communities of Practice: Teaching Approaches and Case Studies considers the specific information literacy needs of communities of practice. As such, the book fills a gap in the literature, which has treated information literacy extensively, but has not applied it to the area of communities of practice. Since every community of practice generates, seeks, retrieves, and uses resources and sources related to the cognitive structure being researched or studied, and the tasks being performed, the need

• Author : Beth Christensen,Erin Conor,Marian Ritter
• Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
• Release : 01 January 2018

Information Literacy in Music: An Instructor’s Companion is a practical guide to information literacy instruction for busy librarians and music faculty. This book contains examples of course-integrated assignments designed to help postsecondary music students develop foundational skills in information literacy. These assignments have been solicited from experienced librarians and faculty across the United States, and they represent a broad spectrum of approaches to music research, from historical to applied studies. Be inspired by new and creative solutions to students’

• Author : Lesley S. J. Farmer
• Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
• Release : 15 August 2022

Presents librarians with theoretical background on collaboration and learning, and explains how to team up with families, universities, professional organizations, businesses, and other sources to benefit one's library media center and build a learning community.

• Author : Emmett Lombard
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 29 November 2021

The Internationalization of the Academic Library presents a theoretically informed, empirically grounded analysis of the process of academic library internationalization. Drawing on interviews with library personnel from around the world, Lombard analyzes internationalization at the departmental level of an academic library. Demonstrating that college and library personnel have positive intentions when it comes to internationalization, the research presented nevertheless reveals that there was little commitment to an intentional, holistic role in the libraries studied. Drawing on internationalization expertise and models

• Author : Patricia Senn Breivik,J. A. Senn
• Publisher : National Education Assn
• Release : 15 August 1998

• Author : Amanda B. Click,Sumayya Ahmed,Jacob Hill,John D. Martin III
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Release : 11 July 2016

This volume offers up-to-date insights into the state of library and information science (LIS) in the Middle East and North Africa. Covered topics include information literacy, intellectual property, LIS education and research, publishing and more. This timely contribution thus presents vital areas of research on a region that receives relatively little coverage and is currently experiencing rapid and significant changes.