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“We have big plans.” – Information literacy instruction in academic and public libraries in the United States of America.

 

Author / Autor

Henkel, M., & Stock, W. G.

 

Source / Quelle

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Library and Information Science, July 12-14, 2016, Kyoto, Japan (pp. 159-175). Taipeh, Taiwan: International Business Academics Consortium.

 

Language / SpracheEnglish / Englisch

 

“We have big plans.” – Information literacy instruction in academic and public libraries in the United States of America.

Information literacy instruction is an emerging research topic. In a small bibliometric analysis on LISTA and Web of Science we found that information literacy instruction is strongly associated with libraries. In this article we focus on information literacy instruction in academic as well as public libraries in informational world cities in the United State of America (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco). We performed a quantitative gap analysis between the librarians’ expectations for an ideal information literacy instruction in libraries and the experiences in their library. Additionally, we collected qualitative information regarding all topics of information literacy instruction. For all studied dimensions of information literacy instruction, the gap between expectation and experience was high or even very high (for assessment of instruction outcomes, the libraries’ technical-spatial infrastructure, courses on online safety, courses for advanced learners, and instructions on information law and ethics). Most of the interviewees realized problems, but they see possible solutions as well and “have big plans.”

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