Developing Information Literacy in Interdisciplinary Classrooms: Engaging with Diverse Literacies

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Abstract

© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG. Preparing students for their masters’ dissertations requires understanding their abilities, needs and academic goals. This means faculty should provide multiple opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate information seeking skills and have opportunities to apply these skills to research practices. To contextualize challenges advisors face, this paper will describe methods lecturers can use to support masters level dissertation research in an interdisciplinary department. The challenges of teaching information literacy in a diverse academic environment will also be discussed. Evidence and descriptions will be empirical, but will shed light on the obstacles teaching staff may face when supporting student acquisition of information literacy skills at the post graduate level.

ISBN

9783319743332

ISSN

1865-0929

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Volume

810

First Page

665

Last Page

670

Disciplines

Library and Information Science

Keywords

Graduate students, Information literacy, Interdisciplinary studies

Scopus ID

85041722869

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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