Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Room 210
Proposal
Discussion of the relationship between teaching information literacy skills and teaching scholarly communication competencies is a recent development in academia. The presenters, a Librarian for Graduate Programs and a Librarian for Undergraduate Programs, will provide a brief overview of this discussion and then present examples of how academic librarians' efforts to teach information literacy and scholarly communication become interrelated throughout the academic life-cycle. The presenters will illustrate the relationship between these two areas of academic librarianship through their impact on undergraduate and graduate populations, library services and instruction at the comprehensive university.
Short Description
The presenters, a Librarian for Graduate Programs and a Librarian for Undergraduate Programs, will provide a brief overview of the discussion the relationship between scholarly communication and information literacy. They will present examples of how academic librarians' efforts to teach information literacy and scholarly communication are interconnected.
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Koz, Olga and Holm, Christina, "The nexus of information literacy and scholarly communication" (2015). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 64.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2015/2015/64
The nexus of information literacy and scholarly communication
Room 210
Discussion of the relationship between teaching information literacy skills and teaching scholarly communication competencies is a recent development in academia. The presenters, a Librarian for Graduate Programs and a Librarian for Undergraduate Programs, will provide a brief overview of this discussion and then present examples of how academic librarians' efforts to teach information literacy and scholarly communication become interrelated throughout the academic life-cycle. The presenters will illustrate the relationship between these two areas of academic librarianship through their impact on undergraduate and graduate populations, library services and instruction at the comprehensive university.
