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Information Literacy in Everyday Life

6th European Conference, ECIL 2018, Oulu, Finland, September 24–27, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS, volume 989)

Conference series link(s): ECIL: European Conference on Information Literacy

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Table of contents (58 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
  2. Information Literacy, Active Citizenship and Community Engagement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
    2. Assessing Libraries’ Community Roles. Proof of Concept

      • Helena Lipkova, Tomas Diviak, Adela Jarolimkova, Barbora Drobikova, Hana Landova
      Pages 83-93
  3. Information Literacy, Health and Well-Being

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
    2. Differences in Health Information Literacy Competencies Among Older Adults, Elderly and Younger Citizens

      • Isto Huvila, Noora Hirvonen, Heidi Enwald, Rose-Mharie Åhlfeldt
      Pages 136-143
    3. Finnish School Health Education Viewed Through an Information Literacy Lens

      • Noora Hirvonen, Tuula Nygård, Laura Palmgren-Neuvonen, Anna-Maija Huhta, Maija-Leena Huotari
      Pages 154-165
    4. Understanding Health Literacy Through the Lens of Phronesis: The Case of Coronary Artery Disease Patients

      • Venkata Ratnadeep Suri, Shaheen Majid, Schubert Foo, Hannah Trinity Dumaual-Sibal, Yun-Ke Chang
      Pages 166-175

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2018, held in Oulu, Finland, in September 2018.

The 58 revised papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 241 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of information literacy and focus on information literacy in everyday life. They are organized in the following topical sections: information literacy in different contexts of everyday life; information literacy, active citizenship and community engagement; information literacy, health and well-being; workplace information literacy and employability; information literacy research and information literacy in theoretical context; information seeking and information behavior; information literacy for different groups in different cultures and countries; information literacy for different groups in different cultures and countries; information literacy instruction; information literacy and aspects of education; data literacy and reserach data management; copyright literacy; information literacy and lifelong learning.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Serap Kurbanoğlu, Yurdagül Ünal

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

    Sonja Špiranec

  • University of Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Joumana Boustany

  • Department of Information and Communication Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Maija Leena Huotari

  • Department of Information Studies , University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

    Esther Grassian

  • Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  • School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

    Loriene Roy

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