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Building an Information Literacy Program for High School Students of Greece in Close Cooperation with a Local Special Library

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Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability (ECIL 2015)

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This paper investigates the context in which a special library of academic standards could contribute to the work of Secondary Education teachers towards the strengthening of their students’ information skills as a preparation for their smoother transition to University-Level research environment. We describe the collaboration of the scientific library of Eugenides Foundation with two different nearby public schools, for the creation of a project on astronomy. Concerning our research methods, we followed the model of action research, as we needed active participation and dynamic reflection of the learners during the learning process. Despite the various limitations, the outcomes of the whole effort were very positive and led us to the conclusion that close collaboration between high school teachers and the librarians even of an Off-Site library can build on students’ low level information skills in order to reach a high level learning experience.

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  1. Eugenides Foundation Library, Athens, Greece

    Hara Brindesi

  2. Model Lyceum Evageliki School of Smyrna, Athens, Greece

    Maria K. Diakonou

  3. Zanneio Model Experimental Lyceum, Athens, Greece

    Sotirios Tsantilas

  4. Archive, Library and Museum Sciences Department, Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

    Sarantos Kapidakis

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  1. Hara Brindesi
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Correspondence to Hara Brindesi .

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  1. Dept. of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye

    Serap Kurbanoglu

  2. DICEN IDF EA 7369, Université Paris Descartes DICEN IDF EA 7369, Paris, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  5. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. School of Information, The University of Texas School of Information, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Brindesi, H., Diakonou, M.K., Tsantilas, S., Kapidakis, S. (2015). Building an Information Literacy Program for High School Students of Greece in Close Cooperation with a Local Special Library. In: Kurbanoglu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability. ECIL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 552. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28197-1_56

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