Information Literacy, Learning, and the Public Library: A Study of Danish High School Students

Autor/inn/en	Nielsen, Bo Gerner; Borlund, Pia
Titel	Information Literacy, Learning, and the Public Library: A Study of Danish High School Students
Quelle	In: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 43 (2011) 2, S. 106-119 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-0006
DOI	10.1177/0961000611408643
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Information Science Education; Information Needs; High Schools; Student Attitudes; Lifelong Learning; Public Libraries; Foreign Countries; Information Literacy; Librarians; Library Role; Critical Thinking; Denmark + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Informationstechnologische Bildung; Information need; Informationsbedürfnis; High school; Oberschule; Schülerverhalten; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Public library; Stadtbücherei; Öffentliche Bibliothek; Ausland; Informationskompetenz; Librarian; Bibliothekar; Bibliothekarin; Kritisches Denken; Dänemark
Abstract	The paper reports on a study of 12 Danish high school students' perceptions of public libraries' role in learning, user education, information literacy, and librarians' information competencies. The study is undertaken by use of literature review and interviews with a purposive select sample of public library users in Denmark. The study demonstrates that public libraries are considered an important place for learning. The high school students view the public librarians as very competent and as good at helping them to develop their information needs, identify sources, and support the students in the information search processes. The high school students show rather good critical skills, but poor information need developing skills. The study further shows that concepts of information literacy and lifelong learning are not very well understood by the users, i.e. the high school students. The results have a range of implications, both for pedagogical praxis in the public library and for Library and Information Science (LIS). (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10