The impact on education for librarianship and information studies of the Bologna process and related European Commission programmes – and some outstanding issues in Europe and beyond

Johnson, Ian

doi:10.3233/efi-130933

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“…While job readiness is commonly recognised as a graduate attribute in vocational courses, it has not always been considered to be the primary purpose of all university education. In Europe, however, there has been a shift since the Bologna Process set out to align European standards in higher education (for example Johnson, 2013). In the UK, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) established a range of Subject Benchmark Standards (eg QAA, 2014) reinforcing employability as a graduate attribute and these standards have been used to inform employability profiles developed by the Higher Education Academy (Rees et al, 2006).…”

Section: Graduate Employabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring effective information use in an insurance workplace

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Donaldson

2021

JIL

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As employability has become a more visible graduate attribute, it is becoming recognised that a better understanding of information practices in work may enable a smoother transition from university to employment. This paper discusses the current state of workplace information literacy and presents the findings of research into staff experiences of information use in a City insurance firm. A framework previously developed out of phenomenographic research into nursing is employed to draw parallels and highlight differences between insurance workplace and university student terminology. Context-specific hierarchical statements using the language of the participants are developed from coded interview texts. These statements, which are drawn together in illustrative personae, provide a rich and detailed view of the participants’ experience of effective information use. It is suggested that a better understanding of language use in communities of practice would facilitate transition both between and within the communities.

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Section: Graduate Employabilitymentioning

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Donaldson

2021

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“…na primjer, Audunson 2005, Audunson i Suva, 2016Tammaro 2007), drugi su pak zabrinuti da raznolikost ugrožava transparentnost i mobilnost studenata i nastavnika, a time predstavlja značajne probleme u postavljanju združenih programa te za suradnju među europskim visokoškolskim ustanovama općenito (usp. Aparac-Jelušić, 2007;Virkus, 2008;Johnson, 2013;Golub, Hansson i Selden, 2017). Prema Kajbergu (2007, str.…”

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Kompetencije knjižničara i informatologa: izazovi u vremenu društvenih i kulturnih promjena

Aparac-Jelušić¹

2019

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SAŽETAK: U članku se raspravlja o kompetencijama knjižničara i informatologa, nesuglasju oko nazivlja te nastojanjima da se istražuju razni utjecaji na akademsko obrazovanje u polju informacijskih znanosti. Ukazuje se na promjene u europskom obrazovnom prostoru i izazove koji su potaknuli pokretanje i financiranje EINFOSE projekta. Posebna se pažnja usmjeruje prema kompetencijama knjižničara i informatologa iz motrišta EINFOSE projekta.KLJUČNE RIJEČI: akademsko obrazovanje, knjižničari, informatolozi, kompetencije, EINFOSE projekt ABSTRACT: In this paper we discuss the competencies of librarians and informatologists, terminological disagreements as well as attempts to investigate the various paths of influence on academic education in the field of Information sciences. We focus on changes in European educational arena and stimulus that encouraged the start-up and funding of EINFOSE project. Special attention is paid towards competencies of librarians and informatologists from the perspective of EINFOSE project.

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“…This was a part of the Bologna Process which involved 29 European countries signing the declaration committing their governments to create the European Higher Education Area (European Associations of Institutions in Higher Education, 1999) which shared a system of comparable qualifications across countries. The European Association for Library and Information Education and Research was an outcome of the European Higher Education Area (Johnson, 2013). Based on Johnson's assessment, the expectations of the founders of the association were largely unfulfilled.…”

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Changing the Scope of Library Instruction in the Digital Age

Bhattacharyya¹,

Patnaik²

2018

Advances in Library and Information Science

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The dynamism of the information sector driven by ICT and the resulting impact on library and information science professionals have resulted in significant changes in how teaching librarians in the Caribbean are educated. This research was conducted to: describe the education of teaching librarians; examine the changes in education; and investigate how teaching librarians develop and hone their teaching competencies. A mixed-method approach was used to garner quantitative data from 45 librarians and qualitative data from relevant documents in two library schools. The findings show there were significant changes as new courses and programs were developed, online programs were implemented and faculty qualifications upgraded. These changes were somewhat effective, however, teacher-librarians, who developed teaching skills mainly from teacher training, expressed a need for additional technology skills to make them more effective. It was recommended that LIS schools need to diversify their programs to make the content and the activities more aligned to the day to day practices of these teacher librarians.

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The impact on education for librarianship and information studies of the Bologna process and related European Commission programmes – and some outstanding issues in Europe and beyond

Cited by 6 publications

References 33 publications

Exploring effective information use in an insurance workplace

Exploring effective information use in an insurance workplace

Kompetencije knjižničara i informatologa: izazovi u vremenu društvenih i kulturnih promjena

Changing the Scope of Library Instruction in the Digital Age

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