Development of Sustainable Thinking by Information Literacy

Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Literacy in Iran

THINK Systematically, ACT Strategically: Sustainable development of information literacy in the broader context of students' learning

A challenge for educators is to fuse the learning of information literacy to an academic education in such a way that the outcome is systematic and sustainable learning for students. This challenge can be answered through longterm commitment to information literacy education bound to organisation-wide, renewable strategic planning and driven through systemic reform. This paper explores the proc...

Beyond Boolean, Towards Thinking: Discovery Systems and Information Literacy

As discovery systems take the Library world by storm, there is a new opportunity for user-centred information literacy programs to emerge. As library search gets easier and varied platforms become unified, the focus of information literacy on search rules and platform choice and navigation will (finally) be able to truly give way to critical thinking and imaginative exploration. These are skill...

Sustainable Development and Information Technology

Information Technologies model the reality in such a way that information on it can be efficiently found and transported to the decision makers in a useful, readable form. There is still a need of standardization of nomenclatures, interchanging of formats and languages in order to accelerate the communicability of information so it can be useful for any decision maker or for the public. But thi...

Hydrological information for sustainable development

This paper presents the development of a framework for data collection network design that considers sustainable development goals. The proposed framework adopts sustainable development principles and incorporates and revises traditional methodologies used in data collection network design. Important components of the framework include a focus on hydrological information, the preservation of lo...