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Information Literacy of Lawyers in Their Working Environment

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Information Literacy in the Workplace (ECIL 2017)

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The research aims at presenting the way legal practitioners in the Republic of Croatia (judges, lawyers, notaries) access relevant sources of information necessary in their profession as well as at defining the problems emerging therefrom. The answers to these questions have been obtained through the study by applying quantitative and qualitative research methods. The analysis results showed that, given the requirements of the labour market, in addition to legal skills, legal practitioners should also develop their information literacy skills. The results will be used to set indicators for creating a learning environment that allows students to continuously and systematically acquire information literacy IL competences required by the global market.

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  1. Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

    Dejana Golenko

  2. Faculty of Law, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia

    Ljiljana Siber

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  1. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  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

    Esther Grassian

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

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Golenko, D., Siber, L. (2018). Information Literacy of Lawyers in Their Working Environment. 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_9

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