Communities as Necessity in Information Literacy Development: Challenging the Standards

Harris, Benjamin R.

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2008.03.008

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“…The contrasting assumptions of library services about information literacy were examined in a study of university web-based information literacy tutorials (Sundin, 2008). There is increasing emphasis on information literacy understood not simply as the knowledge and skills of the individual, but as part of a community with more emphasis on people's communities of practice (Harris, 2008), andO'Farrill (2010) suggests that in the workplace there should be more emphasis on the creation of meaning, sensemaking and effective information use as belonging to a situated practice. Literacy is thus increasingly seen as part of the situation in which people are and ideas about steady progression in skills associated with information literacy need to be questioned carefully.…”

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Profiling information behaviour of nursing students: part 1: quantitative findings

Stokes

Urquhart

2011

Journal of Documentation

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Profiling information behaviour of nursing students: Part 1: quantitative findings. INTRODUCTIONHandling information is a key aspect of nursing care -from informal patient counselling through formal recording of care to reflection on practice, which increasingly requires appraisal of the research evidence. Library services have developed various information literacy initiatives for nursing students but many of these are based on assumptions of what this large group of students should do, not what they do, and why they do it. With a large student cohort of around 170,000 nursing students enrolled at higher education institutions in the UK in 2007/8 (Higher Education Statistics Agency, 2009), a validated model of the information seeking behaviour (ISB) for this group would inform design and evaluation of information support services for this diverse student group, composed of mature students as well as school-leavers. Factors that affect the way nursing students search may be as important as being taught how to search. Personality, learning styles and self-efficacy may all have a role to play in the success or otherwise of student information seeking behaviour.This paper presents quantitative findings of a mixed-methods study on the development of information seeking profiles among nursing students, based on personality, self-efficacy and learning style. LITERATURE REVIEWMany conceptual models of ISB have been formulated including Wilson (1981), Ellis (1993), Wilson (1999), Ingwersen (1996, Kuhlthau (1993) and Saracevic (1996). Some of these models have been tested subsequently and each of these models focuses on a 'process' of information seeking which has a series of defined stages notably Ellis, Kuhlthau, although the more recent models do incorporate elements of 'looping' and 'feedback'. A lack of testing means it is unclear whether these models are over complicated and how closely related the different aspects of the models are. A more contemporary model formulated by Foster (2005), from grounded theory research with academics suggests that information seeking is substantially nonlinear, in the sense that there is not a series of steps or stages, rather those seeking information begin and end at different points depending partly on various cognitive factors. For the purpose of this article, information seeking behaviour is defined as what takes place when an individual (or group) identifies an information gap and purposefully tries to fill it; whilst information searching includes the physical acts of looking for information. Logically, studies of information seeking may include elements of searching as indicated in Wilson's (1999) nested model.From the data obtained from a longitudinal study of the use of electronic information services among academic staff and students in the UK, a model was derived of the mediating factors that influenced student use of electronic information services (in particular) (Urquhart and Rowley, 2007). This model embraced not just the factors associated with individuals but some ...

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Section: Information Literacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Profiling information behaviour of nursing students: part 1: quantitative findings

Stokes

Urquhart

2011

Journal of Documentation

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“…There is good background information on the progression of instruction prior to the establishment of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Harris (2008) notes that this background information is helpful to those new to information literacy by demonstrating the evolution and pedagogical shift from bibliographic instruction to information literacy. The author states that in addition to the current standards, what is needed is a focus on "community" or a realization of the importance of learning as a communal activity; successful community activities require active participation and information sharing.…”

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Information Literacy Across the Disciplines: Using the Science Information Literacy Wiki as a Collaborative Tool in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Science Librarianship

Berman

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Slebodnik

2011

Journal of Agricultural & Food Information

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“…O letramento informacional insere-se nessa perspectiva de maneira ampla, pois especificamente, de acordo com Gasque (2012), consiste em um processo de aprendizagem voltado não somente ao aspecto textual, mas para o desenvolvimento da busca e do uso da informação. Harris (2008) afirma que as competências de criação, localização, avaliação e uso da informação nos mais diferentes e variados suportes e formatos ocorrem nos contextos da comunidade, em que os significados e valores estão imersos. Isso significa compreender melhor o contexto de implementação dos programas.…”

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A construção de um programa de letramento informacional e arte educação

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Gasque

2017

RDBCI rev. dig. Bibliotecon. e Ci. Info.

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Analisa a interligação dos conteúdos de letramento informacional aos conteúdos de Arte no ensino médio por meio de pesquisa descritiva realizada com arte-educadores da secretaria de educação do Distrito Federal, regional de ensino do Recanto das Emas. Os docentes pesquisados participaram de curso básico de formação em letramento informacional com intuito de subsidiar a etapa posterior que consistiu em responderem rodadas de questionários intercaladas por feedbacks. O estudo utilizou o método Delphi, os instrumentos de pesquisa foram questionários estruturados com perguntas fechadas e abertas. Os resultados revelaram a viabilidade de aplicação da proposta, apesar dos desafios a serem superados, relacionados principalmente à incipiência na formação em letramento informacional dos docentes em geral, à deficitária infraestrutura das escolas e à organização curricular vigente.

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Communities as Necessity in Information Literacy Development: Challenging the Standards

Abstract: Contemporary standards suggest that information literate activity is a solitary process.As a corrective, research and pedagogical theory related to "learning communities" and

Cited by 55 publications

References 14 publications

Profiling information behaviour of nursing students: part 1: quantitative findings

Profiling information behaviour of nursing students: part 1: quantitative findings

Information Literacy Across the Disciplines: Using the Science Information Literacy Wiki as a Collaborative Tool in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Science Librarianship

A construção de um programa de letramento informacional e arte educação

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