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Informationen zum Autor Tibor Koltay, PhD, is Professor at the Department of Information and Library Studies of Szent István University, Hungary. In 2010, he published Abstracts and Abstracting. A Genre and Set of Skills for the Twenty-first Century with Chandos Publishing. Sonja Spiranec, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the co-founder of the European Conference on Information Literacy and served as the editor of the book Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice. Laszlo Z. Karvalics is an Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Heritage and Human Information Science of the University of Szeged, Hungary. He was the founding director of BME-UNESCO Information Society Research Institute and founding editor of Informacios Tarsadalom, a Hungarian language quarterly that addresses the issues of information in society.
List of contents
- 1. Shifting Research Paradigms Toward Research 2.0
- Researchers' Skills and Abilities
- Open Science
- The Data-Intensive Paradigm of Scientific Research
- Factors Inhibiting a Wider Uptake of Research 2.0
- 2. The Nature of Information Literacy
- Definitions, Declarations, and Frameworks
- The New Literacies Context
- The Reading and Writing Context
- Additional Contexts and Turns: Culture, LIS, and Others
- Literacies Beyond Information Literacy
- The Relationship of Information Literacy to Information Overload and Personal
- Information Management
- 3. Transformations of Information Literacy: From Bookshelves
- to the Web 2.0
- The Practical Level: From Bibliographic Instruction to IL
- Theoretical Perspectives Influencing Shifts in IL
- The Information Environment as a Principal Driver of IL Transformations
- 4. Conclusion: Shaping Forces, Future Challenges
