Information literacy is seen as a key competency in working and everyday life. For library and information science (LIS) students information literacy is a core competency and taught in many LIS university programs. One challenge herewith is to mediate these skills in the best way. This paper tries to answer the question, how students cope with different learning methods and to which extent the...

Librarian in Charge of Library, Faculty of Dentistry, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran Master Student, Department of Library and Information Sciences, Faculty of Human Sciences, Islamic Azad University of Hamedan, Hamedan, Iran Assistant Professor, Department of Library Science and Information, Qom Payame Noor University, Qom, Iran *Corresponding Author; E-mail: simaesmaeilza...

The serious leisure perspective is introduced and its relationship to library and information science (LIS) set out. The relationship is twofold: the perspective offers a distinctive approach both to research and to practice in this discipline. That is, the perspective bridges a critical gap that has separated the fields of LIS and leisure studies, manifested in both as scant concern with the c...

In order to design information retrieval (IR) learning environments and instruction, it is important to explore learners' conceptions of the domain to be examined. This study addresses the issue by investigating students' conceptions of IR know-how and its implications for designing learning environments for information retrieval. The focus of this study is the integration of research on IR ins...

The well-documented limitations of journal impact factor rankings and perceptual ratings, the evolving scholarly communication system, the open access movement, and increasing globalization are some reasons that prompted an examination of journal value rather than just impact. Using a single specialized journal established in 1960, about education for the Information professions, this paper dis...

Purpose – To show that the neo-pragmatist position of Richard Rorty, when combined with a sociocultural perspective, provides library and information science (LIS) with a forceful epistemological tool. Design/methodology/approach – Literature-based conceptual analysis of: historical development of pragmatism in relation to other epistemological positions; neo-pragmatism as a non-dualist, both p...

A key issue in teaching and learning in information retrieval – particularly for library and information science students – is the gap in prior knowledge compared with the need for mathematics to conduct and evaluate searches. In this chapter, we examine the use of online Multiple Choice Questions to support these type of students, and narrow this gap between experience and knowledge. We provid...

objective and subjective ways of understanding information corresponds to the conflict between an understanding of information as a thing or a substance versus an understanding of it as a sign. It is a fundamental distinction that involves a whole theory of knowledge, and it has roots back to different metaphors applied in Shannon's information theory. It is argued that a subject-dependent/ sit...

This paper discussed the concept of computer competency and investigated the relationship between students’ computer competency and their perception of enjoyment and difficulty level of web-based distance-learning courses. Participants were 237 entering graduate students in library and information science from a mid-southwestern state university in the United States from year 2001 to 2003. Comp...