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Theses/Dissertations

Information Literacy

2020

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Critical Information Literacy And Collections: Developing Praxis For Public Libraries, Lesley Garrett Nov 2020

Critical Information Literacy And Collections: Developing Praxis For Public Libraries, Lesley Garrett

Liberal Arts Capstones

Public libraries play an active role in building equitable, democratic communities by promoting critical information literacy, most notably in their collections development. Critical Information Literacy builds on the standard information literacy definitions by adding an analysis of political, economic, social and corporate systems that “have power and influence over information production, dissemination, access, and consumption" (Gregory and Higgins, 2013). This project includes a zine created to introduce an adaptation of Paulo Freire's banking concept of education for libraries, as well as note the continued work needed to develop a praxis for critical public librarianship.

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User Experience As A Rhetorical Medium: User At The Intersection Of Audience, Reader And Actor, Áine Doyle May 2020

User Experience As A Rhetorical Medium: User At The Intersection Of Audience, Reader And Actor, Áine Doyle

English Honors Theses

The goal of this project is to demonstrate how digital interfaces are bodies of visual language that can be “close-read” and interpreted critically, just like any other traditional text; digital user interfaces, like poetry and novels, have form and content that complement and shape the meaning and interpretation of the other. It is meant to encourage academic discussions about digital interfaces to go beyond whether social media is “good” or “bad” to how digital interfaces are structured, why they are structured the way they are, and what effects these structures have on the way they communicate information and content to …

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Análisis Del Comportamiento Informativo De Los Usuarios De La Biblioteca Pública De Mosquera, San Juan Bosco, Estudio De Caso, Jorge Hernando Siatoya Rico Jan 2020

Análisis Del Comportamiento Informativo De Los Usuarios De La Biblioteca Pública De Mosquera, San Juan Bosco, Estudio De Caso, Jorge Hernando Siatoya Rico

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

Con el desarrollo de la investigación, se presentan los aspectos más relevantes que componen y relacionan el comportamiento informativo de los usuarios de la Biblioteca Pública San Juan Bosco del municipio de Mosquera, en donde se analizan los aspectos que los identifican, así como sus características. Para tal caso, se tomaron los modelos existentes sobre el comportamiento informativo, para realizar el análisis comparativo del comportamiento informativo, tomando para ello el punto de vista de la biblioteca pública y la perspectiva de las diferentes tipologías de usuarios que frecuentan la biblioteca del Municipio de Mosquera.

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Plan De Servicio De Información Local Para La Participación Ciudadana En La Biblioteca Pública Soledad Rengifo. Ibagué, Tolima, Yudy Paola Fajardo Reyes, Ingrid Johanna Fuentes Morales Jan 2020

Plan De Servicio De Información Local Para La Participación Ciudadana En La Biblioteca Pública Soledad Rengifo. Ibagué, Tolima, Yudy Paola Fajardo Reyes, Ingrid Johanna Fuentes Morales

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

El presente trabajo nace del desarrollo de la práctica social de la Convocatoria de Estímulos del 2012 del Ministerio de Cultura y la Biblioteca Nacional, por tanto, surge la sistematización de la experiencia por medio de un estudio de caso, realizado en la Biblioteca Pública Soledad Rengifo. A partir de lo anterior se dispuso el diseño de un Plan de Servicio de Información Local (SIL) como requisito de Grado para optar por el título de Profesional de Sistemas de Información Bibliotecología y Archivística. Por tal motivo, surge la necesidad de concienzar a todas las comunidades en general (docentes, investigadores, profesionales …

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Portraits Of Professional Collaboration: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Partnerships, Carrie L. Forbes Jan 2020

Portraits Of Professional Collaboration: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Partnerships, Carrie L. Forbes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Many regional accrediting organizations for higher education have embraced information literacy as a key component for both student success and student learning outcomes. Through embedded librarianship practices, librarians are now taking a leading role in developing and promoting users’ information literacy skills and in adopting an active classroom teaching approach. Faculty-librarian team teaching is a best practice for integrating information literacy into the higher education curricula, but the extant research has largely focused on the barriers to collaboration. Using Walsh and Kahn’s (2010) model of “collaborative working” as a conceptual framework, this dissertation explores the qualities and characteristics of four …

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Exploring Secondary Students’ Abilities In Judging The Credibility Of Digital Content On The Internet, Katie Dailey Jan 2020

Exploring Secondary Students’ Abilities In Judging The Credibility Of Digital Content On The Internet, Katie Dailey

Masters Theses

The shift from print to digital environments has created an opportunity and responsibility for educators to focus on instructional planning and practices that reflects the growing complexity of online texts students helping to ensure that their students are information literate. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the how 83 eleventh grade high school English students judge the credibility of information on the internet. The researcher used methodological triangulation to qualitatively analyze by comparing and aligning data from the survey results, observations of students during class discussions, responses to class assignments, and the quality ratings of students’ think-aloud …

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Evaluación Del Impacto De Los Programas De Alfabetización Informacional De La Biblioteca La Victoria, Ronald Alfonso Villalba Paramo Jan 2020

Evaluación Del Impacto De Los Programas De Alfabetización Informacional De La Biblioteca La Victoria, Ronald Alfonso Villalba Paramo

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

La presente Investigación muestra el impacto de la Alfabetización Informacional en el adulto mayor de la Biblioteca la Victoria Ubicada en Bogotá zona San Cristóbal, respondiendo a la pregunta ¿Cuál es el impacto de los programas de Alfabetización Informacional de la Biblioteca la Victoria? y como los contenidos de enseñanza de la biblioteca pública son relevantes para que el adulto mayor sea incluido en una sociedad abordada por la tecnología, donde la Biblioteca Pública tiene un papel crucial para que el adulto mayor sea una persona, Alfabetizada en tecnología y temas de actualidad académica. Los programas de Alfabetización Informacional, el …

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