Developing Information Literacy in Interdisciplinary Classrooms: Engaging with Diverse Literacies
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Source of Publication
European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL 2017)
Publication Date
1-19-2018
Abstract
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.
DOI Link
ISBN
9783319743349
Publisher
Springer, Cham
First Page
665
Last Page
670
Disciplines
Library and Information Science
Keywords
Graduate students, Information literacy, Interdisciplinary studies
Scopus ID
Recommended Citation
Schuster, Kristen M. and Stewart, Kristine N., "Developing Information Literacy in Interdisciplinary Classrooms: Engaging with Diverse Literacies" (2018). All Works. 4567.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/4567
Indexed in Scopus
yes
Open Access
no