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The information literacy self-efficacy of disadvantaged teachers in South Africa
(Springer, 2013)
The aim of this study was to gauge teachers’ information literacy
self-efficacy thereby eliciting clues to possible gaps in teachers’ knowledge and
skills which could be addressed during an information literacy education ...
Lecturers' use of Web 2.0 in the faculty of Information Science and communications at MZUZU University, Malawi
(UNISA Press, 2015)
The study reported on in this article investigated the use of Web 2.0 technologies
by lecturers in the Faculty of Information Science and Communications at
Mzuzu University (MZUNI), Mzuzu, Malawi. By distributing a ...
Libraries and a “Better Life for All”: The politics, processes, and promises of the South African LIS Transformation Charter
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)
The rhetoric of public librarianship includes many ringing claims
for the role of libraries in democracy; and, on the twenty-first anniversary
of democracy in South Africa, it is an opportune moment to
examine the rather ...
South Africa’s LIS Transformation Charter: policies, politics and professionals
(IFLA, 2014)
The rhetoric of public librarianship includes many ringing claims for the role of libraries in
democracy; and, on the 20-year anniversary of the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, it is
an opportune moment to ...
How school libraries improve literacy: some evidence from the trenches
(Unisa Press, 2013)
The article comes out of a panel discussion, featuring five teacher-librarians, which was
broadcast to schools across the Western Cape Province of South Africa in 2011. Four
of the panelists are graduates of the University ...
Information literacy education in the South African Classroom: Reflections from teachers' Journals in the Western Cape province
(De Gruyter, 2016)
This qualitative study reports on teachers in the
Western Cape as they attempt to embed information literacy
in their classrooms. It explores how teachers come
to understand information literacy and the extent to
which ...
Initiating mobile phone technology using QR codes to access library services at the University of Cape Town
(SAGE, 2013)
This article reports on an innovative project which grew out of the desire to facilitate access to information using the Quick Response (QR) Code. Easily read by mobile phones with cameras, the QR Code provides a simple ...
The “tricky business” of dual use school community libraries: A case study in rural South Africa
(Walter de Gruyter, 2011)
The article describes an interpretive case study of a group of six dual use school community libraries in one remote region of South Africa. Its focus is rather more on the libraries as school libraries than public libraries. ...
Challenges for information literacy education at a university of technology
(University of Kwazulu Natal, 2010)
The article reports on an action research project to investigate the effectiveness of an information literacy intervention for first year engineering students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). The ...
From borders and landscape to ecosystem: reconfiguring library services to meet the needs of South African youth
(LIASA, Stellenbosch University, 2013)
In this article we consider the configuration of the South African library and information services (LIS) sector, and analyse the extent to which its structuring facilitates or hinders optimum service to the children and ...