The document discusses different views on information literacy and proposes considering it within an "information culture". It notes that information literacy is difficult to define, and describes classical and critical views that emphasize competencies versus understanding dynamic information systems. The document suggests information culture implies creation, diversity, and viewing information through various contexts like disciplinary cultures.
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Information culture - different views on information literacy
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Information culture
- different views on
information literacy
Thomas Hapke
University Library,
Hamburg University of Technology
(TUHH)
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
The problem of defining
information literacy!
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg Until experienced in practice,
concepts are often not easy to
define!
Think especially of concepts like
Twitter or Facebook!
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg Put the three spheres of
information literacy in order
of importance!
1) Find / access/ locate
2) Evaluate / discern / judge
3) Use / communicate / produce
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Idea: Geoff Walton, Mailing list lis-infoliteracy@jiscmail.ac.uk, April 20, 2012, see also his
LILAC 2012 presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/infolit_group/walton-12685154
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
On the future of competences!?
„In diesen Tagen darf sich niemand auf das
versteifen, was er ‚kann‘. In der Improvisation liegt
die Stärke. Alle entscheidenden Schläge werden mit
der linken Hand geführt werden.“
„These are the days when no one should rely on his
‚competence‘. Strength lies in inspiration. All the
decisive blows are struck left-handed.“
Walter Benjamin, Einbahnstraße, 1928.
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Critical view on information literacy
Classical view Critical view
Emphasis on competences, standards for understanding process or system
information use of information
Concept of education, Bildung transfer of knowledge from the creating ability for reflection and
knower to the learner critical awareness
Concept of knowledge independent of knower result of a social process
Concept of inf. process linear not linear, complex
Emphasis on information how to find how to produce and share
literacy
View of the user customer, needy person patron, co-producer
View of the library storehouse room for experiences
View of the librarian teacher consultant for learning
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7. TUHH
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg Information literacy is one of many
key competencies and literacies!
Intercultural
Media literacy competencies
Visual literacy
Decision-making and responsibility
Academic
literacy
Writing
competencies
E-literacy
Soft
Computer skills
literacy
Didactical competencies
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
critical view
new literacy
transliteracy
Information literacy is a … !?
multimodal literacy second-order literacy
meta competence
multi-literacy
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Cultural view on information literacy!
Thinking about the other,
the difference!
La culture de l'information
Culture informationnelle
(Olivier Le Deuff)
In French „culture“ also means education or „Bildung“!
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10. TUHH
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg Information culture implies ...
• to create and develop oneself
• diversity (in contrast to Google‘s monoculture)
• being different and viewing oneself different
• importance of context and relations, e.g. with a
disciplinary culture
• a more phenomenological or ethnological view on
information behaviour and information literacy
• a not library-related view on information literacy
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg Key aspects of
information culture include …
Textuality Authenticity
Knowledge Power
Identity Memory
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Distinctions
Object Subject
INFORMATION
Material Form
Stability Variability
Presence Absence
Data Knowledge
Representation Interpretation
Technology COMMUNICATION Culture
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
„Wir sind doch nicht blöd“
(We are not stupid, however)
Searching for a book by Clemens Knobloch
in library catalogs!
From http://log.netbib.de/archives/2010/08/25/wir-sind-doch-nicht-blod/
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Information literacy and
discovery systems
• Does the existence and use of discovery systems change
information literacy?
• Is the need for information literacy a function of the user
interface?
• How do indexing, data structure and links, cataloguing
rules behind the user interface prevent optimal results
when searching for information?
• Which components of information literacy are actually not
necessary to get the best search result?
(See also the discussion at http://plan3t.info/2012/04/05/verbessern-
discovery-systeme-die-informationskompetenz/)
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15. TUHH
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
The searchability of information
depends on choices made by authors,
publishers, database providers, users
and others
(Adapted from Falciola, 2009)
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
The social construction
Specific user and
users
of search results
• information behaviour Contents or documents in
e.g. used search terms the system
• information literacy • indexed content: bibliogr.
• former searches of Results in a description, abstracts, full text
specific user and of specific • „enriched“ data
other users search system
• controlled vocabulary included
System‘s „properties“
• user interface
• indexing (Boole, best match) Other impacts
• structure of data • advertising economics of
provider
• transfer of data to search system
• ...!?
• used cataloguing guidelines and its
institutional or personal interpretation
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Prerequisites to develop
information literacy!?
• Curiosity
• Skill to play and to explore
• Having the time for it
• Critical attitude
• ...?
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
What is the core of
information literacy?
What is the real, the characteristic,
the „Eigentliche“ of information literacy?
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Proposals for the core of
information literacy/culture
• Don‘t trust only one information source.
• Be prepared for constant change.
• Know your skills and limits!
• When searching: „Bullshit in, bullshit out“.
• Tolerate ambiguity and differences.
• Don‘t give up too early.
• Be aware that every fact is the result of an
act, that information has been created by
somebody with a certain purpose.
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
An example for information literacy
content written for a special
„disciplinary culture“
Hapke, T.:
Appendix I. The world of biotechnology
information: seven points for reflecting on your
information behavior.
In: Buchholz, K., Kasche, V., Bornscheuer, U.T.:
Biocatalysts and Enzyme Technology. 2. ed.
Wiley-VCH, October 2012.
Preprint available at: http://www.chemie.uni-
greifswald.de/~biotech/assets/downloads/Info
rmation_BuchholzKascheBornscheuer.pdf
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Information literacy/culture
and creativity
How can information systems increase
individual creativity?
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22. TUHH
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Further reading
Hapke, T.: Informationskompetenz in einer neuen Informationskultur. In:
Handbuch Informationskompetenz, pp. 36-48. Ed. W. Sühl-Strohmenger. Berlin:
de Gruyter Saur, 2012. http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/129277
Falciola, L, Searching biotechnology information: A case study. World patent
information 2009, 31, 1, 36-47
Le Deuff, O.: Culture de l’Information. Espace d’Olivier Le Deuff.
http://www.culturedel.info/
Lloyd, A.: Information literacy landscapes : information literacy in education,
workplace and everyday contexts. Oxford: Chandos, 2010.
Tredinnick, L.: Digital information contexts : theoretical approaches to
understanding digital information. Oxford: Chandos Publ., 2006.
Tredinnick, L.: Digital information culture : the individual and society in the digital
age. Oxford: Chandos Publ., 2008.
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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
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