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International standards for information literacy
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Librarians working in higher education want to support students in the pursuit of their academic work, based on the good use of information. To this
end, they need to know the emerging pedagogical changes that they can
take advantage of when designing their courses, integrating this knowledge
into a more segmented, clear, and objective training offer, based on international references, published in the last decades, since the ACRL Standards,
until the ACRL Framework. The attention given to these documents can
prepare librarians for the necessary updating of skills, supporting innovation, and best practice achievement. This paper aims to systematise the evolution of concepts and practices of information literacy guidelines in higher education and identify their inspiration for the creation of Portuguese
guidelines. An exploratory inventory of international information associations was carried out to identify information literacy guidelines. The content analysis of these guidelines allowed the identification of pedagogical
trends in the performance of libraries and their professionals. The analysed
contents show an interpretative evolution of the guidelines, converging in
the ACRL Framework and the contents of the Portuguese recommendations
for academic libraries for the period 2020–2022. It is evident that updating
skills for librarians requires not only an awareness of sector trends, but also
transforming them into good practice and recommendations appropriate
for the national context.
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Information literacy Higher education Competencies Learning Teaching Portugal
Citation
Sanches, T., Antunes, M., & Lopes, C. (2022) International standards for information literacy. In Liber Quarterly 32 ((pp. 182-192). Sciendo. https://doi.org/10.2478/9788395815065-020