18 research outputs found
From library skills to information literacy
The application of new technologies and the acquisition of new sources and methods of information dissemination, as well as the provision of libraries services, requires the special education of the users in order to take advantage of these sources and services. In this paper, an investigation of the Greek academic libraries and their user education sessions is attempted. This research aims to explore the user education sessions offered by the libraries, with special regards to the education, the type of user education sessions and their contents. For the collection of the elements, the questionnaire method is selected. The current situation as much as it concerns the libraries and the applied teaching methods at the Greek education institutions, is presented
From library skills to information literacy
The application of new technologies and the acquisition of new sources and methods of information dissemination, as well as the provision of libraries services, requires the special education of the users in order to take advantage of these sources and services. In this paper, an investigation of the Greek academic libraries and their user education sessions is attempted. This research aims to explore the user education sessions offered by the libraries, with special regards to the education, the type of user education sessions and their contents. For the collection of the elements, the questionnaire method is selected. The current situation as much as it concerns the libraries and the applied teaching methods at the Greek education institutions, is presented
Cataloging conventional and digital objects: new tools with old names or old names to new tools?
Information concerning the creation of tools and bibliographic description standards of library material are referred. Detailed reference to their development and adjustment to the data created so as to reflect the new conditions and needs, the way these are formed in the contemporary environment, is made. We present the efforts made by the bibliographic
agencies to develop new and to improve the traditional/conventional tools for the description of the conventional documents as well as the electronic resources available in the World Wide Web