The Instrumentality of Information Needs and Relevance

Sundin, Olof; Johannisson, Jenny

doi:10.1007/11495222_10

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“…In the present article, the neo-pragmatist concept of community of justification is drawn on to illustrate how different tools are used within a particular community, such as a profession and the training for that profession (Sundin & Johannisson, 2005a;Johannisson & Sundin, 2007). Accordingly, a student of nursing makes use of the tools at hand in the community of justification within which the student acts.…”

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Constructing librarians' information literacy expertise in the domain of nursing

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Lundh

2008

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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This article investigates negotiations of librarians' expertise in relation to information literacy at the micro-level, specifically in the domain of nursing education. A qualitative empirical framework is employed. The study draws on 18 semi-structured interviews, 16 with Swedish nursing students, one with a librarian and one with a nursing professor. Three themes on librarians' expertise emerge in the findings: technical-administrative, information searching, and source evaluation expertise. The themes have different foci which are shown to be relatively independent, or dependent on the domain of nursing. The results indicate that it is important for librarians to navigate between two different strands of perceiving information literacy practices, either as generic or as embedded.

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Constructing librarians' information literacy expertise in the domain of nursing

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2008

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“…Moreover, we intend not just that consideration be given to the content being learned through a lookup-search process: i.e., that in searching for information on flu shots, one comes to plug a defined information need on that topic. Instead, we argue that through searching students can engage in processes beyond verification of uncontentious facts, and into more socio-cultural processes and perspectives on literacy in which knowledge is constructed in negotiation with a particular social and information context (Knight and Littleton 2015;Sundin and Johannisson 2005). In our view, this richer conception of search as learning is fundamentally social in nature, studied well through the lens of collaborative information seeking (CIS).…”

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The orchestration of a collaborative information seeking learning task

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The paper describes our novel perspective on 'searching to learn' through collaborative information seeking (CIS). We describe this perspective, which motivated empirical work to 'orchestrate' a CIS searching to learn session. The work is described through the lens of orchestration, an approach which brings to the fore the ways in which: background context -including practical classroom constraints, and theoretical perspective; actors -including the educators, researchers, and technologies; and activities that are to be completed, are brought into alignment. The orchestration is exemplified through the description of research work designed to explore a pedagogically salient construct (epistemic cognition), in a particular institutional setting. Evaluation of the session indicated satisfaction with the orchestration from students, with written feedback indicating reflection from them on features of the orchestration. We foreground this approach to demonstrate the potential of orchestration as a design approach for researching and implementing CIS as a 'searching to learn' context.

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“…This is seen most clearly in the study of information behaviour through the concept of 'information practices', rooted in the social norms of a community of practitioners; see, for example, Talja and Hansen (2005), Sundin and Johannison (2005), and Savolainen (2008). As Savolainen (2008, p42) puts it, "most researchers agree that a significant characteristic of the concept of information practice is the central role of social and cultural factors qualifying information seeking, use and sharing".…”

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