Information literacy - Information Matters

Wouldn’t it be great that at the same time you were learning to read chapter books and basic informational texts, you could learn a research process that could carry you right through post-secondary studies? As M. E. Marland, a member of the UK Schools Council, asserted in 1981, from elementary school to PhD studies, in research, the questions and processes remain fundamentally the same. To find out if that was true for the Canadian context, for my PhD dissertation study I decided to observe the information behaviours of grade-three students as they worked on a class project.

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April 10, 2025 Heidi Julien

Information Literacy Instruction in Canadian Libraries

Longitudinal research in information science is rare, but an exception to that rule is a Canadian study that has surveyed academic librarians at multiple points over a 30-year period to understand their instructional goals and practices. This research program highlights the value of longitudinal and geographic comparisons.

Education

November 13, 2023 Siby Shaji

Primary Learning Alchemists: Unveiling the Magic of School Librarians

This article delves into the profound reasons why school librarians’ matter, particularly within the context of primary education.

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September 21, 2023 Jutta Haider

What Is Infrastructural Meaning-Making and Why Do We Need It?

Not only is it becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish fact from opinion, but also to understand why certain content ends up in our feeds, recommendations or search results in the first place. Yet it’s more important than ever to understand it. This is where infrastructural meaning-making comes into play, and it’s something that the datafied society needs to understand.