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Media and Information Literacy

open access: yesDESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, 2021
Paul G. Zurkowski was the first to introduce the term information literacy in 1974 to describe the techniques and skills necessary for utilizing “a wide range of information tools and primary sources”. It also included the ability to measure information value to “mold information to [meet] needs” and to create solutions to problems.1-2 Since then ...
M. Saraswati Rao, Chennupati K. Ramaiah
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Impact of Information Literacy Skill on Students’ Academic Performance in Bangladesh

open access: yesInternational Journal of European Studies, 2019
The study explores the level of academic performance and information literacy skill of undergraduate students in Bangladesh. In addition, the study examines the impact of information literacy skill on students’ academic performance.
Purnima Banik, B. Kumar
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Georgia International Conference on Inforation Literacy Program [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Conference Program with information about the presenters and ...
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
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The Practice and Promise of Critical Information Literacy: Academic Librarians' Involvement in Critical Library Instruction

open access: yesCollege and Research Libraries, 2018
Critical information literacy is a way of thinking and teaching that examines the social construction and political dimensions of libraries and information, problematizing information’s production and use so that library users may think critically about ...
Eamon Tewell
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Information Literacy, “New” Literacies, and Literacy

open access: yesThe Library Quarterly, 2009
Literacy was once thought to be well understood and well defined. However, it has been argued that the digital world has disrupted previous notions of literacy, supplanting them with “new” forms of literacies—first in various new literacy studies and now in the library and information science (LIS) scholarship as it applies to information literacy (IL).
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Information Literacy in Kenya [PDF]

open access: yesTHE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, 2009
AbstractThere are a growing number of information and communications technologies (ICT) initiatives in developing countries. These initiatives are usually undertaken on the basis that they are important for social and economic development. However, one barrier to the efficient utilisation of ICT in developing countries is the relatively low level of ...
Tilvawala, K.   +2 more
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Increasing sedentary time, minimum dietary energy requirements, and food security assessment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract We compute corrections for sedentary behavior in physical activity levels (PALs) and incorporate them along with corrections for over estimation of basal metabolic rates (BMRs) into threshold caloric intakes, known as minimum dietary energy requirements (MDERs).
Jacob Michels   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Innovative information literacy landscapes

open access: yesJournal of New Librarianship, 2020
This paper examines how Knowledge School principles can help libraries develop a more nuanced understanding of how social and cultural differences shape knowledge production and dissemi-nation within LGBTQ+ communities.
Vanessa Kitzie
doaj   +1 more source

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