Building information research skills in the Pacific region: The University of the South Pacific Initiative

Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, 2019

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Summary Information literacy is generally perceived as the spiritus muovens of learning processes, reflecting the premise of information as the basic building block of education. This idea gained relevance and new facets with the proliferation of the Web 2.0, which has brought about new, speculative and concerning issues. In the first part of the paper the authors will discuss the importance of information literacy in the higher education sector.

Information Literacy (IL) is an essential competency to enable students as lifelong learners and to develop professionalism. This paper describes the initiatives taken by library professionals to teach information literacy for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Sri Lankan universities; especially it explores the case of South Eastern University of Sri Lanka (SEUSL). The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the steps taken to integrate information literacy in the university’s curricula and to prepare a conceptual framework to teach. A series of five workshops have been carried out successfully in SEUSL and the feedback of students has been evaluated. Workshop participants are highly satisfied with the programmes and achieved some extent of skills on information searching, finding, evaluating and presenting information. Their suggestions and requirements are encountered for designing the course. The outcome of these workshops has assisted to draft a framework for teaching information literacy. A proposal for Information literacy programme as one credit unit for Faculty of Applied Sciences of SEUSL has been drafted to submit at the faculty board meeting and university senate whilst preparation of web tutorial is underway. Key words: Information literacy, University Libraries, Teaching framework, IL model

Proceedings of the 2016 InSITE Conference

This contribution identifies challenges in information literacy didactics in contemporary higher education all over the world: • Heterogeneity among organizations for higher education hinders co-operation. • Information literacy is competing with media literacy. • Leadership and responsibility are needed in information literacy education. • Developing information literacy training materials requires an adequate budget. • Expertise in didactics is also needed for teaching in the area of information literacy. • Marketing should support information literacy didactics. • Information literacy should be integrated in the curriculum of all students. • Libraries should not neglect contemporary information systems. • Study materials should be adapted to the upcoming mobile information technology tools. • Regional training and workshops on information literacy didactics would be welcome. • Data management skills become important besides information literacy. These challenges should be faced c...

Communications in Information Literacy, 2012

Proceedings of the Annual Canadian Association for Information Science Conference.

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