How Is Information Literacy Related to Social Competences in the Workplace?

Collard, Anne-Sophie; Smedt, Thierry De; Fastrez, Pierre; Ligurgo, Valèria; Philippette, Thibault

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_8

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“…Although most IL research measures individual skills, IL has also been considered a collective and socially situated activity, particularly in a workplace context (Collard et al, 2016). As with other concepts in this research, finding a definition of workplace can be difficult.…”

Section: The Role Of Information Literacy In Participationmentioning

confidence: 95%

An information literacy lens on community representation for participatory budgeting in Brazil

Cruickshank,

Ryan

2023

JIL

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This paper presents an evaluation of the information literacies used by community representatives when engaging with participatory budgeting in São Paulo City, Brazil. Using questions established from context-setting interviews with stakeholders, a focus group was held in 2019 with eight participative councillors, with in situ interpretation, resulting in a translated transcript of the discussion. Thematic analysis was used to understand information issues faced by community representatives in relation to past research. It was found that the community representatives face informational barriers to their engagement with participatory budgeting, in (a) learning about their role (b) understanding the information needs of the communities served and (c) gathering and sharing information about local issues with stakeholders. These findings allow the refining of CILIP’s definition of information literacy (IL) for citizenship and provide the basis for proposing a model for the IL of community representatives. It is also proposed that future IL research could further develop the role of digitally-enabled place and community in shaping the landscape of literacy and the role of hyperlocal representation. Additionally, the role of translation in cross-lingual IL research is considered.

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Section: The Role Of Information Literacy In Participationmentioning

confidence: 95%

An information literacy lens on community representation for participatory budgeting in Brazil

Cruickshank,

Ryan

2023

JIL

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“…Two prominent conceptualisations of added value exist in the literature, and can be used to support advocacy: compliant/routine and inventive/innovative information literacy (e.g. Collard et al, 2017). In the context of workplace practices, the former type of information literacy safeguards against social, legal, financial, and medical risks, and contributes towards evidence-based practice (Forster, 2017;Partridge et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

Information Literacy Competencies for Career Transitions in the Digital Age

Milosheva,

Hall,

Robertson

et al. 2023

Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace

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“…IL in the workplace is identified not only with individual, technical skills, but increasingly with the ability to meet information needs in a team, to improve information environment in the workplace and to self-improve both the individual and the team (Lloyd, 2011). In the context of teamwork and collective dimension of IL, the following useful skills are indicated: sharing a set of documents, organising space for cooperation, planning meetings and group activities, making collective decisions, synchronous remote work, using co-workers as a source of information, managing incoming and outgoing information, collective creation of documents and content by the team (Collard et al, 2016).…”

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Information literacy of Polish state administration officials in the context of the concept of "good governance"

Osiński

2021

JIL

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The article presents the results of research on information literacy (IL) of employees of selected state administration offices, those in which the concept of improving the quality of work, named "good governance", has been implemented. The first aim of the study was to determine the components of IL necessary for state administration employees and the deficiencies occurring in this respect. Another goal was to develop research methods and techniques which would be useful to achieve the first aim and to identify challenges of this study. The research was conducted in two stages. The first of them, carried out at the Lublin Provincial Office in Poland, was aimed at determining the information needs of individual official positions, identifying the IL essential for officials and the shortcomings in this regard. At this stage, the following research methods have been used: analysis of cards describing individual job positions in the office, the method of mapping knowledge in the office and the method of focused group interview. The second stage of the research was carried out in five provincial offices. This time, the main goal was to check whether the questionnaires developed by Polish researchers to study the information culture (the system of human attitudes towards information) of various social groups could be effectively used to study the IL of officials. It was assumed that the information culture of staff determined their ability to undertake information activities, including untypical ones, expected from them in line with the concept of "good governance". The conclusion reached was that IL of employees was underestimated in the current practice of state administration. A set of components of the information skills useful for working in various office job positions have been developed. It was reported that the information culture of the studied group was characterised by an optimistic perception of their own skills and their professional usefulness. Studies have shown that obtaining conclusive results indicating the level of specific information skills in the office environment is often not possible for reasons beyond the control of a researcher. Traditional IL testing methods are assumed to fail there. This is due to the Dunning-Kruger effect (Kruger & Dunning, 1999), as well as constraints imposed by the way offices function and decisions of the management of the office. It seems that achieving more precise results requires establishing close cooperation with the management of an examined group. Undertaking such research is necessary in the context of implementing the concept of "good governance" and a model of one of the methodologies has been presented in the article.

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How Is Information Literacy Related to Social Competences in the Workplace?

Cited by 5 publications

References 99 publications

An information literacy lens on community representation for participatory budgeting in Brazil

An information literacy lens on community representation for participatory budgeting in Brazil

Information Literacy Competencies for Career Transitions in the Digital Age

Information literacy of Polish state administration officials in the context of the concept of "good governance"

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