In case anyone is interested in submitting a paper to the The
Australian Library Journal, please see the email below from Helen
Partridge
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ALIA Information Literacy Forum
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Australian Library Journal - Special Issue on COMMUNITY and
WORKPLACE INFORMATION LITERACY
Guest Editor:
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Information
Literacy Forum
Contact: Helen Partridge Email: [log in to unmask]
IMPORTANT DATES:
Full papers due: February 15 2008
Authors receive reviews: February 29 2008
Final papers due: April 4 2008
Anticipated publication: May/June 2008
The Australian Library Journal has been published since 1951.
Published quarterly, it contains a wide coverage of Australian
library issues. It is the acknowledged flagship publication of the
Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). The journal is
available through subscription.
ISSUE FOCUS
This special issue is seeking papers on any aspect of information
literacy within community and workplace contexts. Information
literacy refers to the ability to access, evaluate and use
information from a variety of sources. Whilst information literacy
has rapidly become an object of scholarly interest in the education
and the library and information science disciplines, the majority of
this interest has been confined to educational settings. Little
research has been conducted exploring information literacy within the
community or workplace setting. According to ALIA, information
literacy can contribute to learning for life, personal and
professional empowerment, social inclusion, participative citizenship
and innovation and enterprise. The Alexandria Proclamation on
information literacy and lifelong learning argues that information
literacy is a ‘basic human right’. This special issue of ALJ will
provide a forum to identify, share and develop the issues relevant to
information literacy within workplace and community settings.
Contributors to the special issue may like to consider the following
questions to guide the development of their submissions:
· What does information literacy mean within workplace and
community settings?
· What strategies are needed to ensure that information literacy
is relevant within workplace and community?
· What are the priorities for establishing information literacy
within workplace and community?
· Whose responsibility is it to foster information literacy within
workplace and community?
· How is information literacy experienced within workplace and
community?
· What should information literacy education/programmes in
community and workplace settings consist of?
· How do you measure the information literacy success and
improvement of people in community or workplace settings?
· What are the economic, social and cultural issues and challenges
if people in community and workplace settings are not information
literate?
· What skills and knowledge are needed by librarians and
information professionals if they are to successfully meet the
challenge of facilitating information literacy within workplace and
community?
· How can current LIS education help in preparing the library and
information professional for facilitating information literacy in
community and workplace settings?
The questions provided above are merely a guide; submissions that
will provide additional or new understanding of the link between
information literacy to workplace and community settings are welcome.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions of 3000-5000 words should be emailed in Word format to
the special issue editor, Helen Partridge at [log in to unmask]
The AGPS Style Manual is used. For further information see - http://
alia.org.au/publishing/alj/
Helen Partridge | Senior Lecturer | Course Coordinator Master of
Information Management (Acting)
Faculty of Information Technology | QUT | 2 George St. Brisbane Q. 4000
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Gardens Point Campus
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