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This Open Access book combines expertise in information literacy with expertise in education and teaching to share tips and tricks for the development of good information literacy teaching and training in universities and libraries. It draws on research, knowledge and pedagogical practice from academia, to teach students how to sift through information to be able to distinguish the important and correct from the unusable. It discusses basic concepts and models of information literacy, as well as strategies for accessing, locating and retrieving information and methods suitable for the assessment and management of information. The book explains many concepts connected to information literacy and discusses pedagogical issues with a view to supporting the practitioner. Each chapter examines one aspect of information literacy, discusses the pedagogical challenges involved and provides suggestions for best practice.
Ane Landøy is Cand. Philol from University of Bergen, 1990. She is academic librarian at University of Bergen Library since 2002. Until 2018 she was head of libraries in various positions. She has coordinated several international development projects: "JULAP: Juba University Library Automation Project" and"EdLib: Education Librarians"-projects in South Sudan; "Modernization of academic libraries services in Moldova" and "Developing a sustainable platform for open access publishing in Armenia", all funded by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign affairs. She was member of IFLA's Standing committee for Academic and Research libraries 2010-2014, and is now a member of the board of the Norwegian Library Association. Her research interests include library leadership, information literacy trainings, user experience and open access/open data.
Daniela Popa is working as a Lecturer PhD; Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania. She completed her PhD in educational sciences in 2013 with the thesis: Self-Regulated Learning Strategies That Stimulate Students with Learning Difficulties. Popa Daniela has published books, chapters and research articles in the area of Educational Psychology and Theory and methodology of learning and teaching. She has worked in international projects in educational field (Perspectives of a Higher Quality Level of the Training of Specialists for Early Education and Primary Schooling; EU standards for accreditation of study programs on BH Universities; BACOVia - Professionalizing teaching career; Library Network Support Services: modernizing libraries-LNSS - in Armenia, Moldova and Belorussia; Library Network Support Services: modernizing libraries in Western Balkan countries through staff development and reforming library services; Enhancing Quality in Primary Physical Education.
Angela Repanovici is working as a professor at the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania. She completed herPhD in engineering science in 1999 and PhD in marketing in 2009 with the thesis: "Marketing strategies about promotion and visibility scientific production by digital repositories". She was university library director 2001-2008; and is president of Information Literacy section of the Romanian Library Association. She has coordinated, as Transilvania University partner, several national and international research projects: TEMPUS Project: "Developing Information Literacy", "Library Network Support Services: modernizing libraries-LNSS - in Armenia, Moldova and Belorussia"; "Library Network Support Services: modernizing libraries in Western Balkan countries through staff development and reforming library services", (both funded by Erasmus +) and was expert in the: "JULAP: Juba University Library Automation Project" and"EdLib: Education Librarians"-projects in South Sudan; "Modernization of academic libraries services in Moldova" and "Developing asustainable platform for open access publishing in Armenia", all funded by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign affairs. Currently, she is project leader of the Erasmus + Capacity Building-project DECIDE: "Developing services for individuals with disabilities". The projects have application in information systems, information communication, and information literacy. Professor Repanovici has published books (one is the first Information Literacy Guide, 2012 for Romanian Library Association) and research articles on a wide variety of subjects. She teaches Information Literacy, Information Management, Marketing Strategies and Information for Medical Engineering. She is an international expert and international evaluator in international projects. She is also the editor of the Romanian Journal of Library and Information Science.
