Library skills and information literacy at Iceland University of Education

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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
Birgir Björnsson Reference librarian The Learning
Centre
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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
Iceland University of Education

• Number of students 2300
• 2000 students at undergraduate level
• 300 students at graduate level
• Faculty and staff members 230

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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
Iceland University of Education

• Department of Undergraduate Studies
• Developmental Therapy/Social Pedagogy
• Early Childhood Education
• Primary and Lower Secondary Education
• Recreational and Social Activity Studies
• Sports and Physical Education
• Teacher Certification

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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
Iceland University of Education

• Department of Graduate Studies
• Courses for professionals in education
• Courses for professionals in
• developmental therapy/social pedagogy
• Diploma in Education
• M.Ed. In Education
• Doctoral programme in Education

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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
Iceland University of Education

• Students at IUE
• Female 82
• Male 18
• Distance education students 59
• Regular students 41
• Students mean age 35 years
• Age range 19 70 years of age

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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
Students as active producers/users of information

• Survey spring 2005
• 578 students participated
• Participation in the survey 24.4
• Survey spring 2007
• 441 students participated
• Participation in the survey 20

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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
Students as active producers/users of information

• How do the students use
• the Internet (2005)?
• Play online games 21
• Write blog 22
• Use Skype 26
• Publish a web site 28
• Sending/receiving SMS 64
• Sending/receiving e-mails 99

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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
Students as active producers/users of information

• How do the students use
• the Internet (2005)?
• Watch movies online 7
• Download music online 15
• Watch television online 17
• Listen to music online 21
• Listen to radio online 22

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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
Students as active producers/users of information

• How do the students use
• the Internet (2005)?
• Search for goods and services 75,5
• Search for scholarly sources 98,5

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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
The students self-perception
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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
The students self-perception
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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
The students self-perception
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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
The students self-perception
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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
The students self-perception
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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
The student as a consumer
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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
The student as a consumer
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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
The student as a consumer

• I have used
• the following search engines (2005)
• Ask Jeeves 8,5
• Google 97
• Leit.is 93
• MSN 13,5
• Yahoo 62
• Meta search engines 1- 4,5

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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
The students actual knowledge
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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
The students actual knowledge

• Can you find everything on the Internet by using
  Google (2005)?
• Yes 14
• No 47
• Dont know 39

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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
The students actual knowledge

• Are articles found in ProQuest
• all in full text (2005)?
• Yes 0,5
• No 25
• Dont know 74,5

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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
The students actual knowledge

• Is the following search string an example of
  narrowed search (2005)?
• education AND curriculum
• Yes 24
• No 12,5
• Dont know 63,5

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Library skills and information literacy at
Iceland University of Education
The librarians headache!

• So what is new?
• What is next?