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Information Literacy in Portuguese School Libraries: A Longitudinal Study of Master Degree Dissertations

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Information Literacy in Everyday Life (ECIL 2018)

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Since the beginning of the 21st century, a rapid growth in access to information and communication technologies has been observed in Portugal, as well as in other European countries. School libraries (SL) and teacher librarians (TL) play a fundamental role as they have been increasingly considered by school communities as an essential resource for developing information literacy (IL) competences. The methodology for this study was a meta-analysis of the results of a body of master dissertations, completed between 2007 and 2017, at Universidade Aberta, Portugal. A first group of the analysed dissertations indicated that in general, TL misunderstood the concept of IL, were still not aware of its importance and most of their work was still related to traditional library activities. In more recent years we have identified some important improvements in Portuguese SL and in research studies and evidence of that progress is shown.

This work is financed by national funds by FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology under the project UID/HIS/00057/2013 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007702), FCT/Portugal, COMPETE, FEDER, Portugal 2020.

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  1. CIDEHUS-UÉ, Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal

    Ana Novo

  2. CEMRI, LEAD, Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal

    Glória Bastos

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  1. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Yurdagül Ünal

  4. University of Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Joumana Boustany

  5. Department of Information and Communication Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Maija Leena Huotari

  6. Department of Information Studies , University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  7. Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  8. School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Novo, A., Bastos, G. (2019). Information Literacy in Portuguese School Libraries: A Longitudinal Study of Master Degree Dissertations. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy in Everyday Life. ECIL 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 989. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13472-3_26

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