Information Literacy in the Workplace
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Informed and informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking, "Information Literacy in the Workplace" will prove to be applicably useful for librarians and LIS students in understanding how information literacy is experienced by the professions they support and academics teaching professional courses. It will also be of interest to professionals (e.g. medical, social care, legal and business based) and their employers in showing that IL is essential to best practice and key to ethical practice.
» Midwest Book Review
This book explains how information literacy (IL) is essential to the contemporary workplace and is fundamental to competent, ethical and evidence-based practice. In today's information-driven workplace, information professionals must know when research evidence or relevant legal, business, personal or other information is required, how to find it, how to critique it and how to integrate it into one's knowledge base. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Facet Publishing
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 208
- ISBN
- 9781783301324
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
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Informed and informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking, "Information Literacy in the Workplace" will prove to be applicably useful for librarians and LIS students in understanding how information literacy is experienced by the professions they support and academics teaching professional courses. It will also be of interest to professionals (e.g. medical, social care, legal and business based) and their employers in showing that IL is essential to best practice and key to ethical practice.
» Midwest Book Review
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Students, librarians, professionals and organisations would do well to consider and explore the increasingly driven imperative that IL skills will be needed in a connected, ethical, constantly evolving future, and this book provides a platform to start on this road.
» Patricia Darwish, Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association
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Information Literacy in the Workplace makes the important point that IL is also essential in the contemporary workplace...I was particularly taken by Foster’s own chapter, “Information Literacy’s role in workplace competence, ‘best practice’ and the ethics of professional obligation,” in which he emphasizes that professionals are ethically required to use the best evidence they can in making their decisions since “[n]ot to be information-literate may result in harmful outcomes”
» Ashley Thomson, Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research
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This book offers a fresh perspective and suggests ways to reframe IL so that it is acknowledged throughout a workplace as relevant and valuable. It provides ideas for information professionals on how to develop their own and their colleagues’ IL in a workplace context, as well as on how to support students in their transition to work...This book is relevant to information professionals who support workplaces, to academic librarians who support student and staff IL, and also to those who are studying IL.
» Lynne Meehan, Journal of Information Literacy