Strengthening Information Literacy Competencies through Incorporating Personal Information Management Skills

Abstract

Tourism economy is the most significant industry in the world. It holds a central position and plays an important role in the economic development of a country, especially of countries with high unemployment rate, such as the Republic of Macedonia. Strengthening of, and investing in, tourism capacities directly contribute to further development, integration, and promotion of a country. It is especially important to indicate that creating a strategy, developing and educating human potential, as well as successfully managing the said potential, bear huge significance for good-quality development of tourism economy. Human resources are a crucial factor for achieving good-quality service and the effect of satisfied guests, which is the goal of each tourism organization in view of increasing their competitiveness. In a situation of an open world market, competitiveness and profitability of tourism organizations will, to a greater extent, depend on the competence of tourism managers, as well as on their ability to successfully manage human resources. Certainly, a prerequisite for all this is possessing of competent and creative workforce, which, rather than being content with their present knowledge level, will make continuous initiatives for advanced learning, perfecting their work, and promoting their career.

Bonding between information literacy and personal information management practices: a survey of electronic media journalists

“…A mindful combination of IL skills and PIM practices will help the information users to save their time, cost, energy and efforts (Majid et al , 2013; Chaudhry et al , 2015). In addition, IL skills coupled with PIM enables information users to manage their digital information in their personal spaces in a way that it can be retrieved easily when needed.…”

Using Personal Information Management to Strengthen Information Literacy at Work

“…We also recommend that this training should incorporate personal information management. A review of existing IL standards indicates a gap or inadequate emphasis on the management of gathered information [17].…”

“…Simple tools and services are available to handle different information types and formats, e.g., Flicker, Outlook, and YouTube [16]. Pointed out that one possible solution to overcome the problem of overload of information is to store information online using clouds and outside sources [17]. They highlighted that keeping information in such sources can help overcome the problem of information overload and information fragmentation.…”

“…This has been highlighted in the professional literature. Studies have reported the use of multiple devices for keeping and organizing information may lead to information fragmentation [17], [18]. It was reported that even within the same device, information was scattered into different files, folders, and incompatible application software [19].…”

“…This problem is further aggravated due to easy access to tremendous amounts of information through multiple devices. Majid et al [17] highlighted that each new technology is making it further easier and less costly to produce, acquire and disseminate information, adding to the existing information overload. Information overload occurs when employees do not have enough time to read, understand, and utilize the available information.…”