Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynotes

   1. Information Literacy Is Dead… Long Live Information Literacy

      • Paul G. Zurkowski

      Pages 1-10

   2. Information Literacy Research and Practice: An Experiential Perspective

      • Christine Susan Bruce

      Pages 11-30

3. Overview and Research

   1. The Information Literate Brain

      • Paul Sturges, Almuth Gastinger

      Pages 31-40

   2. Productive Partnerships to Promote Media and Information Literacy for Knowledge Societies: IFLA and UNESCO’s Collaborative Work

      • Maria-Carme Torras i Calvo, Evgeny Kuzmin

      Pages 41-47

   3. Participatory Action Research and Information Literacy: Revising an Old New Hope for Research and Practice

      • Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo, Jesús Lau, Sirje Virkus

      Pages 48-53

   4. Analyzing the Intellectual Structure of World Information Literacy Literature through Citations and Co-citations

      • Zehra Taşkın, Güleda Doğan, İpek Şencan

      Pages 54-60

4. Policies and Strategies

   1. Information Literacy Policies from the Perspective of the European Commission

      • Carla Basili

      Pages 61-69

   2. Are National Information Literacy Policies Possible?

      • John Crawford

      Pages 70-78

   3. Information Literacy, a Cornerstone of Democratic Society: A Component of an Information Policy

      • Egbert J. Sánchez Vanderkast

      Pages 79-85

   4. An Investigation into the Development of an Institutional Strategy to Build Research Capacity and Information Literate, Critical Thinking, Independent Learners in Three African Universities

      • Mark Hepworth, Siobhan Duvigneau

      Pages 86-92

5. Theoretical Framework

   1. Activity Theory as a Framework for Understanding Information Literacy

      • Nabil Ben Abdallah

      Pages 93-99

   2. An IL Integration Model and Its Application in Curriculum Integration and Staff Development in Higher Education

      • Li Wang

      Pages 100-110

   3. I-LEARN: Information Literacy for Learners

      • Delia Neuman

      Pages 111-117

6. Related Concepts

   1. The Influence of Technological Changes on the Definition of Information Literacy

      • Pavla Kovářová, Iva Zadražilová

      Pages 118-125

   2. From Scientific Literacy to Lifelong Research: A Social Innovation Approach

      • László Z. Karvalics

      Pages 126-133

   3. Research Data Literacy

      • René Schneider

      Pages 134-140

   4. Digital Literacy in a Global Context

      • Sarah C. M. Arthur

      Pages 141-147

   5. Methodological Literacy of Doctoral Students – An Emerging Model

      • Jela Steinerová

      Pages 148-154

7. Citizenship and Digital Divide

   1. The Impact of Information Literacy Education for the Use of E-Government Services: The Role of the Libraries

      • Elitsa Lozanova-Belcheva

      Pages 155-161

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2013, held in Istanbul Turkey, in October 2013. The 73 revised full papers presented together with two keynotes, 9 invited papers and four doctoral papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 236 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on overview and research; policies and strategies; theoretical framework; related concepts; citizenship and digital divide; disadvantaged groups; information literacy for the workplace and daily life; information literacy in Europe; different approaches to information literacy; teaching and learning information literacy; information literacy instruction; assessment of information literacy; information literacy and K-12; information literacy and higher education; information literacy skills of LIS students; librarians, libraries and ethics.

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

• Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

  Serap Kurbanoğlu

• University of California Los Angeles, USA

  Esther Grassian, Diane Mizrachi

• University of Stirling, UK

  Ralph Catts

• University of Zagreb, Croatia

  Sonja Špiranec

Policies and ethics