Information Literacy Programs in the Field of Law: Case Study of Two Law Faculties in Croatia

Patrones de alfabetización informacional en el uso del conocimiento jurídico mexicano

“…Esta perspectiva se centra en las capacidades investigativas que debe observar quien sea evaluado dentro de los parámetros de la alfabetización legal. Se consideran observables distintos criterios, donde la investigación debe ir más allá de las habilidades de localización, evaluación y aplicación de fuentes de información relevantes, sino más bien es la capacidad de contacto con bases de datos en línea y otras fuentes legales relevantes como la consulta de materiales primarios y secundarios (Vega Díaz, 2015;Golenko et al, 2016). Se espera que los estudiantes ya deben poseer algunas habilidades adicionales que deberían haber adquirido durante su educación previa como requisito para los estudios de derecho: trabajo y aprendizaje independiente, habilidades de comunicación y conocimiento de idiomas extranjeros,…”

Information literacy programmes (theoretical framework in the field of law and medicine)

“…They are most often conducted sporadically, partially, in individual courses or as part of seminar classes, which are not attended by all students, but only by those who have applied. They are most often carried out either by librarians themselves or at the invitation of the subject teacher in an informal agreement, which leads to the fact that the programs are not mandatory and usually are not included at the formal level of the academic institution (Golenko, Petr and Siber 2016; Course Search of legal sources and databases 2019). Due to unsystematic sporadic education that is not included at the formal level of the institution, students of all years of study own different levels of information literacy skills.…”

“…The aim of the research was to determine the representation of information literacy within the educational environment of the institution in a formal sense, that is, to analyse strategic documents that provide a framework for action at the faculty level in order to identify those contents and methods that provide starting points for the development of information literacy, and open a space for cooperation between librarians and teachers in realization of classes. A step further was the research which examined the views and experiences of the institution's management and decision-making bodies on the institution's strategic documents and curriculum on the importance of implementing information literacy programs, and their involvement at the formal level of the institution and the development of students' information skills, especially in the field of law, at the faculties of law in Osijek and Rijeka (Golenko, Petr and Siber 2017). The paper that widely touched on the context of information literacy in the field of law in the Republic of Croatia is a research conducted by the author in her doctoral dissertation (Golenko and Model 2016).…”