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Map of Information Literacy Research 920

The document discusses research priorities for information literacy (IL) in various contexts based on several Delphi studies. The highest priorities identified were determining the type of training needed to develop librarians' teaching role and how to meet users' pre-university education needs. Other top priorities included identifying effective IL teaching methods, the relationship between IL and student success, and IL's economic impacts in developing and knowledge-based economies. Legal professionals prioritized determining how much time and money IL training could save legal firms through improved searching.

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Map of Information Literacy Research 920

The document discusses research priorities for information literacy (IL) in various contexts based on several Delphi studies. The highest priorities identified were determining the type of training needed to develop librarians' teaching role and how to meet users' pre-university education needs. Other top priorities included identifying effective IL teaching methods, the relationship between IL and student success, and IL's economic impacts in developing and knowledge-based economies. Legal professionals prioritized determining how much time and money IL training could save legal firms through improved searching.

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What do you think?!

What are IL research priorities for public libraries?

Highest priority & agreement on: What type of training required to develop the role of librarian to educator? How can public libraries meet the needs of users in pre-university education?

Results of a Delphi Study carried out by Anmol Kalsi & Annette Kayonde, Spring 2007

What are the top IL research priorities? Survey of UK IL experts


Identification of effective methods for teaching IL (highest level of agreement on the topics importance) Investigating the relationship between IL and student success Investigate the impact of IL on the economic performance of particular communities (in developing world) Identifying success factors and barriers to cross-boundary work on IL (in educational context) Investigate the relationship between IL development and lifelong learning Investigate the economic benefits/impact of IL in a knowledge based economy

Results of a Delphi Study carried out by Jo Cocker and Jane Leathley, Spring 2006

Browsing Impact? Encountering

Acquirers
Scanning

Everyday

Respondents: 11 university librarians, 10 academics, 2 information consultants

Areas of life

Work

How do personality, emotions, cognitive styles come into play?

What are their existing knowledge and skills?

Searchers
Knowledge Management? Other literacies? What is the relationship of IL with What is IL?

Concepts

People Information behaviour


How do the systems support search?

Why are people searching?

What is the context e.g. subject domain? How complex are the searches?

Information literacy
Different subjects Different levels Different cultures Different learners Different teachers Different channels

Searching tasks
What is being searched?

Formal What approaches to learning & teaching? Informal Impact, outcomes?


Work Life Learning

What is, or should be, researched?

What is happening in the search? e.g. search terms used

Time!

Economy

Information Literacy Research Map

What are some of the challenges? Doing good research Where is IL being researched?

Publicising & publishing Funding! ? ? ?

Transitions

Why are people doing research? For fun How can we learn about research in other countries e.g. here? To improve Peoples lives

Cross cultural studies? All over the world!

Impact

To demonstrate

Value

To understand Other people Other disciplines Other cultures Learning Understanding & empathy Services

Workplace efficiency Their own careers!

What do legal information professionals think are the top IL research priorities?
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How much time do legal workers spend searching for legal information? How much money could professional IL training save legal firms by improving workers legal info searching skills and therefore saving time? Why do trainee solicitors find it hard to transfer legal research and information literacy skills from the LPC course into practice within their firm? What are effective information literacy training methods in the legal workplace? Are the skills of legal practitioners transferable to new IL problems involved with database/web searching? To what extent does IL enhance productivity in the legal workplace? Results of a Delphi Study carried out by James OBrien and Christopher Rhodes, Spring 2007

5 4 5 4

Highest priority High priority High level of agreement that is important Moderate agreement on importance

Sheila Webber, with Sheila Corrall & IL Research classes 2006&7 Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield
University of Sheffield, Department of Information Studies, June 2007

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