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‘New Clicks’: Developing User-Led Digital Literacies in Older Adults Within Scottish Public Libraries

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Information Experience and Information Literacy (ECIL 2023)

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Digital skills deficits and their resultant real-world inequalities are keenly felt by an older adult demographic, and in Scotland at present there exists no definitive programme to bridge these ever-widening gaps. Using a Participatory Action Research methodology, this project will engage with an established older adult cohort from within the Scottish public library sphere to foster new approaches to developing critical digital literacy skillsets. This methodology will utilise longitudinal engagement and will assess outcomes against existing high-level information literacy frameworks. The outcomes suggested by this research will be robust, scalable and developed directly by those most affected by the issues being addressed.

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  4. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye

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  7. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Feeney, A.J. (2024). ‘New Clicks’: Developing User-Led Digital Literacies in Older Adults Within Scottish Public Libraries. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Experience and Information Literacy. ECIL 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2042. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53001-2_11

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