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Copyright Literacy of LIS Students in the Czech Republic

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Information Literacy in Everyday Life (ECIL 2018)

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Librarians help university students and staff work with information on different tasks. Copyright is strongly connected with information processing. Therefore, university education in librarianship should include this topic to prepare future librarians for their work. This paper presents research results of copyright literacy of Czech students of library and information studies and their attitudes toward this topic. This national part of international research identified a number of problems in students’ knowledge (e.g. copyright and databases or unpublished works) but also their strong belief in the importance of the topic for librarians (89.9%) and its inclusion in the LIS curriculum (61.3%). Students also welcomed the extension of their education about copyright mostly in the international context and practical examples.

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  1. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Pavla Kovářová

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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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Kovářová, P. (2019). Copyright Literacy of LIS Students in the Czech Republic. 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_55

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