Dokument: Information Literacy and Libraries in the Knowledge Society
| Titel: | Information Literacy and Libraries in the Knowledge Society | |||||||
| URL für Lesezeichen: | https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=50177 | |||||||
| URN (NBN): | urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20190718-131015-7 | |||||||
| Kollektion: | Dissertationen | |||||||
| Sprache: | Englisch | |||||||
| Dokumententyp: | Wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten » Dissertation | |||||||
| Medientyp: | Text | |||||||
| Autor: | Henkel, Maria [Autor] | |||||||
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| Beitragende: | Prof. Dr. Stock, Wolfgang G. [Gutachter] Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.rer.soc.oec.et Mag.Dr.iur. Reichmann, Gerhard [Gutachter] | |||||||
| Stichwörter: | information literacy, libraries, knowledge society | |||||||
| Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: | 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke » 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften | |||||||
| Beschreibung: | “Information Literacy and Libraries in the Knowledge Society” is a cumulative dissertation in information science, driven by two fundamental research questions:
(1) What is the role of information literacy in the knowledge society? (2) What is the role of the library in the knowledge society? The hard core of this research program is the theory that information literacy is a meta-competence for members of the information and knowledge society. An information literate being is able to identify an information need and to search, find, access, evaluate, use, organize, create and communicate information in a responsible way. Information literacy empowers us to participate fully in society and in lifelong-learning to adapt to our surroundings and reach our personal and professional goals. Information literacy research is closely related to studies on libraries of the 21st century, which adapt and change their role from sole providers of information to educators of the knowledge society. It is proposed that libraries will share or even lead the task of promoting information literacy in the future and, furthermore that they will only thrive if they transform according to the needs of the knowledge society. These aspects as well as related research questions are explored in the 11 research papers included in the dissertation. We summarize the status quo of information literacy education based on the example of the German education system and discuss different strategies, from kindergarten to university (Chapter 2). Furthermore, we present a meta-analysis of research on the assessment of information literacy levels of different target groups and approaches to information literacy education (Chapter 3). We report on the comparison of information literacy levels among Canadian and German university students (Chapter 4) and we evaluate the method of information literacy assessment via multiple-choice questionnaire (Chapter 6). In Chapter 5, an innovative research method utilizing a tablet application to conduct research on media literacy and use in kindergarten is introduced. Chapters 7 and 8 report on an extensive study surveying academic and public libraries in North American informational world cities on their practice of information literacy instruction. In Chapters 9 and 10 we present two particularly interesting and very different case studies that show how governments instrumentalize libraries in their mission to transform their societies and economies. In the last two research chapters (Chapters 11 and 12) we take a closer look on modern library services and show how the library institution itself transforms to adapt to the needs of the knowledge society, for example, by conducting open innovation. Each of these research papers represents a content-increasing step of the research program – some degenerative, as for example the attempt of comparing information literacy levels between different cultures, and some progressive, as for example the successful establishment of information and media literacy research in a pre-school environment – with the aim of investigating the roles of information literacy and libraries and of explaining why they are of high importance for the construction and maintenance of knowledge societies. | |||||||
| Lizenz: |  Urheberrechtsschutz | |||||||
| Fachbereich / Einrichtung: | Philosophische Fakultät » Institut für Sprache und Information » Informationswissenschaft | |||||||
| Dokument erstellt am: | 18.07.2019 | |||||||
| Dateien geändert am: | 18.07.2019 | |||||||
| Promotionsantrag am: | 25.04.2018 | |||||||
| Datum der Promotion: | 06.06.2019 |
