Location
CTICC – Terrace room
Session Number
Plen 4.1
Keywords
Transliteracy, 21century skills, institution-wide collaboration
Description
Information literacy has been strongly challenged by fundamental and continuing changes in the digital age and in the way students and researchers learn and work. New media types, collective data storage and information sharing made it necessary to extend information literacy from the capability to search and obtain information to producing, storing, and sharing it – involving fundamental technical skills and an understanding of the digital world.
Transliteracy – along with other terms such as digital literacy, 21century skills, and media literacy – aims at conceptualizing these new trends. At the same time transliteracy even in its most elaborate sense is only one aspect of a set of necessary competencies and skills (“literacies”), and the University Library as the information centre of the TUM is one player amongst others, which contribute to an overall program for skills of professional success.
In this context the University Library has two strategic objectives for its information literacy programme – regarding content and its implementation on an institution-wide scale:
1) Offering a contemporary and comprehensive programme for transliteracy, tailored to the needs of the clients and addressing all user groups of the TUM. The University Library of TUM is conducting a project about transliteracy and started investigating systematically the routines and needs of their patrons. The project's findings help evaluate and align the library’s information literacy programme.
2) Integrating this programme in a broader context of an institution-wide scheme of study and research support and collaboration with all TUM facilities involved. The University Library aims at embedding the library service portfolio into the life cycle of learning and research. Therefore the University Library started to collaborate with other facilities at TUM that support general study and research skills and haven’t been working together so far.
The paper will present the transliteracy project and illustrate its preparation, implementation and current state.
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TRANSLITERACY AT A TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY – AN INSTITUTION-WIDE COLLABORATION IN PRACTICE
CTICC – Terrace room
Information literacy has been strongly challenged by fundamental and continuing changes in the digital age and in the way students and researchers learn and work. New media types, collective data storage and information sharing made it necessary to extend information literacy from the capability to search and obtain information to producing, storing, and sharing it – involving fundamental technical skills and an understanding of the digital world.
Transliteracy – along with other terms such as digital literacy, 21century skills, and media literacy – aims at conceptualizing these new trends. At the same time transliteracy even in its most elaborate sense is only one aspect of a set of necessary competencies and skills (“literacies”), and the University Library as the information centre of the TUM is one player amongst others, which contribute to an overall program for skills of professional success.
In this context the University Library has two strategic objectives for its information literacy programme – regarding content and its implementation on an institution-wide scale:
1) Offering a contemporary and comprehensive programme for transliteracy, tailored to the needs of the clients and addressing all user groups of the TUM. The University Library of TUM is conducting a project about transliteracy and started investigating systematically the routines and needs of their patrons. The project's findings help evaluate and align the library’s information literacy programme.
2) Integrating this programme in a broader context of an institution-wide scheme of study and research support and collaboration with all TUM facilities involved. The University Library aims at embedding the library service portfolio into the life cycle of learning and research. Therefore the University Library started to collaborate with other facilities at TUM that support general study and research skills and haven’t been working together so far.
The paper will present the transliteracy project and illustrate its preparation, implementation and current state.