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Perception of Information Literacy Among Faculty at the University of Graz, Tallinn University, and University of Zagreb

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Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability (ECIL 2015)

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The way university academic staff perceive, promote, and practice information literacy (IL) becomes a topic of great importance to IL education. The tendency towards IL education as an integrated or embedded part of the curriculum and curriculum design where students have ongoing interaction and reflection with information, give academic staff an increasingly important role. A semi-structured interview was used as a method of collecting data on the perception of IL among academic staff at three universities in Europe. The following aspects of IL were explored: awareness of IL, attitudes towards IL, motivation for IL facilitation, IL experiences and IL requirements expected from students. Since the interviewed academics were from three different disciplines (business administration, information science, information systems), subject related differences in the perceptions of IL were investigated.

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  1. Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, Varaždin, Croatia

    Valentina Kirinić

  2. Institute of Information Science and Information Systems, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Christian Schlögl

  3. Institute of Information Studies, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Sirje Virkus

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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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Kirinić, V., Schlögl, C., Virkus, S. (2015). Perception of Information Literacy Among Faculty at the University of Graz, Tallinn University, and University of Zagreb. 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_47

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