Information Literacy: Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynotes

   1. Lessons Learned from a Lifetime of Work in Information Literacy

      • Michael B. Eisenberg

      Pages 1-12

   2. Being Fluent and Keeping Looking

      • David Bawden

      Pages 13-18

3. Invited Paper

   1. Information Literacy in the United States: Contemporary Transformations and Controversies

      • Tefko Saracevic

      Pages 19-30

4. Theoretical Framework

   1. The Personal Knowledge Base Conception of Information Literacy

      • A. A. J. (Jos) van Helvoort

      Pages 31-36

   2. Emerging New Information Literacies – A Conceptual Outlook

      • László Z. Karvalics

      Pages 37-46

   3. From Green Libraries to Green Information Literacy

      • Serap Kurbanoğlu, Joumana Boustany

      Pages 47-58

   4. Information Heuristics of Information Literate People

      • Katarzyna Materska

      Pages 59-69

   5. Information Horizons Mapping for Information Literacy Development

      • Jela Steinerová

      Pages 70-80

   6. Mapping Educational Standards to the Big6

      • David Willer, Michael Eisenberg

      Pages 81-90

5. Related Concepts

   1. Copyright Literacy of Librarians in France

      • Joumana Boustany

      Pages 91-100

   2. Social Media Networking Literacy: Rebalancing Sharing, Privacy, and Legal Observance

      • John N. Gathegi

      Pages 101-108

   3. Linked Open Data Literacy for Librarians

      • Jasmin Hügi, René Schneider

      Pages 109-117

   4. Transliteracy and Knowledge Formats

      • Anne Lehmans, Anne Cordier

      Pages 118-127

   5. Health Information Literacy of Senior Citizens – A Review

      • Venkata Ratnadeep Suri, Yun-Ke Chang, Shaheen Majid, Schubert Foo

      Pages 128-137

   6. A Multinational Study on Copyright Literacy Competencies of LIS Professionals

      • Tania Todorova, Tereza Trencheva, Serap Kurbanoğlu, Güleda Doğan, Aleksandra Horvat, Joumana Boustany

      Pages 138-148

   7. Archival Literacy: Different Users, Different Information Needs, Behaviour and Skills

      • Polona Vilar, Alenka Šauperl

      Pages 149-159

   8. Digital Literacy as a Prerequisite for Achieving Good Academic Performance

      • Radovan Vrana

      Pages 160-169

6. IL Research

   1. Qualitative Research in the Field of Information Literacy in the Second Decade of the XXI Century

      • Sabina Cisek

      Pages 170-179

   2. Lessons on Information Literacy Research: A Portuguese Experience

      • Armando Malheiro da Silva, Viviana Fernández Marcial, Fernanda Martins

      Pages 180-188

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2014, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in October 2014. The 93 revised full papers presented together with two keynotes and one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 283 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theoretical framework; related concepts; research; rights and ethics; children; higher education; education and instruction; assessment and evaluation; libraries; different aspects.

• information management
• knowledge workers
• libraries
• lifelong learning
• open media education

• Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Turkey

  Serap Kurbanoğlu

• Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

  Sonja Špiranec

• University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA

  Esther Grassian

• University of California Los Angeles, USA

  Diane Mizrachi

• University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK

  Ralph Catts

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