Information literacy of doctoral students in engineering and the librarianʼs role

Koler-Povh, Teja (avtor), Turk, Žiga (avtor)

After a reform of the doctoral study programme at the authors% faculty in Slovenia, an introductory course on scientific research methods became mandatory. It includes the topic of information literacy and covers its five main elements according to ALA 2000 standards. A librarian/researcher runs the practical part. As this course has been running for seven years we were interested in its impacts: (1) what are students% subjective impressions about the course and (2) if and how such a systematic education on information literacy topics objectively impacts their publishing and citations. The paper first presents the results of the questionnaire among 120 PhD students (the response was 67.5%, i.e. 81 of them) conducted immediately after the completion of the information literacy course. Four indicators were measured to address Question 1. Question 2 was approached by examining students% citation practices in their own PhD theses and their publishing results. The hypothesis was that the information literacy course increased students% competence. It was tested using quantitative parameters, such as the number of references in PhD theses and the number of scientific publications written during the study and shortly after it, separately for reformed programme students who attended the information literacy course, and for pre-Bologna reform students who did not take this course. We found that although pre-reform students on average cited a few more references than their post-reform colleagues, there were smaller differences among post-reform than among pre-reform students. Also, the median/typical post-reform students cited more references, what can be attributed to the information literacy course.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: academic libraries, PhD students, information literacy course, applied science, engineering, Slovenia
• Vrsta gradiva: Znanstveno delo
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FGG - Fakulteta za gradbeništvo in geodezijo
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Recenzirani rokopis
• Založnik: SAGE Publications
• Leto izida: 2020
• Št. strani: Str. 27-39
• Številčenje: letn. 52, št. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-113877
• UDK: 624:02
• ISSN pri članku: 0961-0006
• DOI: 10.1177/0961000618767726
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8367969
• Datum objave v RUL: 13.02.2020

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Journal of librarianship and information science
• Založnik: Bowker-Saur
• ISSN: 0961-0006
• COBISS.SI-ID: 29562881

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Nekomercialno-Brez predelav 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.sl
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• Začetek licenciranja: 11.02.2020

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: akademske knjižnice, informacijska pismenost, tehniške znanosti, inženirstvo