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Information Literacy in Europe: Ten Years Later

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Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice (ECIL 2013)

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This paper is a follow up to the article “Information literacy in Europe: a literature review”, which was published in the electronic journal Information Research in 2003. This paper examines the information literacy movement in Europe ten years later, since 2003, and provides an overview of some trends and developments. The overview is based on literature reviews, personal observations and involvement, and an exploratory study. The exploratory study attempted to understand the experience of those involved in the development of information-related competencies in European open and distance learning higher education institutions.

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  1. Institute of Information Studies, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, Tallinn, 10120, Estonia

    Sirje Virkus

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  1. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. University of California Los Angeles, USA

    Esther Grassian  & Diane Mizrachi  & 

  3. University of Stirling, UK

    Ralph Catts

  4. University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

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Virkus, S. (2013). Information Literacy in Europe: Ten Years Later. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R., Špiranec, S. (eds) Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice. ECIL 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 397. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0_32

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