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Tonakiewicz-Kolosowska, Anna; Socik, Iwona; Gajewska, Monika – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
The authors present the development and perspectives of improving the quality of Information Literacy programmes in Polish technical universities, considering the Bologna Process and the general conditions of the Polish higher education system. The survey conducted in selected technical and medical universities provided an overview of changes…
Descriptors: Information Skills, Competency Based Education, Information Literacy, Curriculum Implementation
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Gilstrap, Donald L. – College & Research Libraries, 2013
This article provides an overview of adult learning theory in relation to teaching philosophies among librarians belonging to ACRL, using Hadley's Educational Orientation Questionnaire. Although not significant as a predictor, there was a nonlinear and negative correlation between librarians' familiarity with the ACRL Standards and their adult…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Standards, Curriculum Development
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Frank, Emily P.; Pharo, Nils – College & Research Libraries, 2016
E-science has reshaped meteorology due to the rate data is generated, collected, analyzed, and stored and brought data skills to a new prominence. Data information literacy--the skills needed to understand, use, manage, share, work with, and produce data--reflects the confluence of data skills with information literacy competencies. This research…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Case Studies, Meteorology
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Virtue, Alicia; Dean, Ellen; Matheson, Molly – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2014
More and more of today's scholars conduct their research in a digital realm rather than using a print collection. The University of Arizona Libraries Guide on the Side tutorial software offers an opportunity to apply the principles of active learning with real world research scenarios. This paper reports on the design and introduction of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Academic Libraries, Computer Software, Information Literacy
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Chen, Hsin-Liang – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2009
The purpose of this project was to investigate how students' search strategies changed over the course of a semester-long information literacy class. Data collection included four different paper questionnaires corresponding to course content in the spring 2008 semester. Seventy-seven participants completed the questionnaires and course work in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Course Content, Search Strategies, Information Literacy
Evans, Henry R., Comp. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
The importance of instruction in the use of books, bibliography, and library economy is recognized by institutions of higher education in the United States. In many of the universities, colleges, and normal schools of the country prescribed courses are given in the book arts and bibliography. To obtain statistical and other data relating to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Library Instruction, Colleges, Schools of Education