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Metadata Literacy Skills: An Analysis of LIS Students

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Resource description, one of the key components of the Library and Information Science (LIS) field, represents a set of processes based on standards and changes according to needs and new developments. Resource description processes and utilization of related standards require special skills and competencies for information professionals. Resource description skills are also known and described as metadata literacy skills. Metadata literacy skills are mainly composed of three sets of skills, namely basic skills, information object description skills and decision-making skills. LIS departments play an important role in equipping their students, in other words, future information professionals, with these skills. This study aims to explore the level of metadata literacy skills of undergraduate students in the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University. A questionnaire was used as a data collection instrument. Findings of the survey indicate that these students have a higher level of confidence regarding basic and information object description skills, in comparison with decision-making skills.

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  1. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, 06800, Ankara, Turkey

    Tolga Çakmak & Serap Kurbanoğlu

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  1. Tolga Çakmak
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  1. Dept. of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye

    Serap Kurbanoglu

  2. DICEN IDF EA 7369, Université Paris Descartes DICEN IDF EA 7369, Paris, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

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

    Esther Grassian

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

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. School of Information, The University of Texas School of Information, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Çakmak, T., Kurbanoğlu, S. (2015). Metadata Literacy Skills: An Analysis of LIS Students. In: Kurbanoglu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability. ECIL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 552. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28197-1_27

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