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Information literacy
- 2. Agenda ● Opening-up questions ● Key concepts ● Information literacy ● Workplace ● At PlantMiner
- 3. Key terms ● Success ● Failure ● Information behaviour ● Knowledge workers ● Information need
- 4. Information society Society where the creation, distribution, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity.
- 5. Knowledge economy Use of knowledge to generate tangible and intangible values.
- 6. Information overload Refers to the difficulty a person can have understanding an issue and making decisions that can be caused by the presence of too much information. (also known as infobesity or infoxication)
- 7. DIKW pyramid
- 8. The Alexandria Proclamation of 2005 describes information literacy and lifelong learning as the "beacons of the Information Society, illuminating the courses to development, prosperity and freedom. Information literacy empowers people in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and educational goals. It is a basic human right in a digital world and promotes social inclusion in all nations." UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Information literacy
- 9. Information literacy: standards SCONUL - Society of College, National and University Libraries ACRL - Association of College & Research Libraries ANZIL - Australian and New Zealand information literacy framework CAUL - Council of Australian University Librarians
- 13. Information literacy contexts Education Workplace Everyday life
- 14. Workplace “There’s a significant opportunity to companies to enable their employees to be more efficient and effective at putting external information to work for them. Most knowledge workers rate themselves as very adept or skilled using online or web-based information products, yet they’ve received little or no formal instruction on information skills (Outsell, 2001, p. 1).”
- 15. Workplace
- 16. Workplace
- 17. PlantMiner ● Sell Managers ○ Google ○ Word of mouth from suppliers ● Business Developer Managers ○ Linkedin, Searchers, Suppliers, News ● Marketing - Blog ○ Government media releases from the Federal Infrastructure Department, news, subscribed newsletters and lastly the BDM/Senior SM team
- 18. PlantMiner ● Directors ○ Searchers ○ Suppliers ○ Staff ● Finance/Accounting ○ Trends, averages (Quote request, Confirm transactions, Supplier renewals) ○ Analyze the data, to identify what the data is saying ○ React to change or accelerate strategies ○ Business drivers ○ SaSS metrics ○ Business intelligence
- 19. PlantMiner Google.com Stackoverflow.com Github* Blogs PHP.net MySQL.com Wiki* Peers* Tibor* Web developer information behaviour *Mentioned by some of the interviewed staff.
Editor's Notes
- Open up questions Key concepts Success Information need Information behaviour Big 3, Big 6 Information Literacy Contexts Education, workplace and everyday Initiatives K12 and High education Government Workplace Make decisions At PlantMiner
- Society where the creation, distribution, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity. The aim of the information society is to gain competitive advantage internationally, through using information technology (IT) in a creative and productive way.
- Technology and in particular knowledge technology help to transform a part of human knowledge to machines. This knowledge can be used by decision support systems in various fields and generate economic values.
- Lloyd reports on a studies conducted on SME (small and medium businesses) that evidences that the information skills of the employees in SMEs need to be improved. Figures in the Saulles (2007) study reveal a cost estimation between £3.7 billion to £8.2 billion per year on wasted time and inefficient information searching on the web to SMEs in United Kingdom (Saulles, 2007). A report cited by Lloyd, from the Economist Intelligence Unit expresses concern that “management frequently gets its decision wrong” (Economist Intelligence Unit, 2007). According to the report 56% of 154 interviewed executives are regularly concerned about making poor decisions because of faulty, inaccurate or incomplete data. In fact, Saulles (2007) refers to studies that show the more than one third of the time spend on the sewhere