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Information Literacy Quest. In Search of Graduate Employability

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Information Literacy in the Workplace (ECIL 2017)

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Abstract

Employability of young graduates is one among top goals of the European Union. As today’s graduates are expected to work in information-demanding environments, information literacy should play much more important role in linking educational, academic, and economic sectors. Improved communication requires better understanding of the discourse in the employability arena. The results of a bibliometric analysis of scientific discourse of graduate employability domain conducted from the perspective of IL is a valuable starting point for all information professionals interested in appropriate topics on a youth employment agenda.

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    European Commission, Education & Training Strategic framework 2020 Overview, http://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/strategic-framework_en, retrieved 29/05/2017.

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    Eurostat, Statistics Explained, http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/File:Employment_rates_of_recent_graduates_(aged_20%E2%80%9334)_not_in_education_and_training,_2005_and_2015_(%C2%B9)_(%25).png, retrieved 29/05/2017.

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  1. Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

    Vjeran Bušelić

  2. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Mihaela Banek Zorica

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  1. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

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

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

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Bušelić, V., Banek Zorica, M. (2018). Information Literacy Quest. In Search of Graduate Employability. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy in the Workplace. ECIL 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 810. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_11

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