Information Literacy is one the key competencies of innovative talents, and is essential for college students to cultivate lifelong learning ability, competitive ability and innovation ability, and plays an important role in becoming high-level innovative talents. At present, information literacy education has been widely carried out all over the world. The importance of information literacy education has been recognized by more and more people. While in China, Information Literacy has not been well recognized by college students and academic staff.
Supported by EU Erasmus+ Project – DIREKT, The Library of Beijing Institute of Technology, and School of Mechanical Engineering are also actively exploring the practice of information literacy education, aiming at developing information Literacy curriculum integrated with Engineering education.
In order to enhance the awareness of Information Literacy among students and faculty staff, help them understand the learning methods and sources of information, the University Library and School of Mechanical Engineering of Beijing Institute of Technology held the first National Information Literacy Awareness Day in the library on both Zhongguancun and Liangxiang Campus from September 26thto 28th2018. The National Information Literacy Awareness Day was supported by the EU Erasmus+ project Developing Trans-regional information Literacy for lifelong learning and the knowledge economy–DIREKT.
The objective of the National Informational Literacy Awareness Day:
A series of activities were organized in the first National Information Literacy Awareness Day in Beijing
A public presentation of National Information Literacy Awareness Day and the DIREKT project was made to students, librarians, and faculty staff during the workshop, round-table seminar, and public exhibitions of Information Literacy during the National Information Literacy Awareness Day in Beijing Institute of Technology.
In 26thSeptember, Springer Nature (Springer/Nature) The manager of Open Access Group Greater China from Springer/Nature was invited to introduce the status and trends of open access and how to use open access to conduct scientific research and publish high-level SCI papers.
The workshop was held in the hall of library of Beijing Institute of Technology in Zhongguancun Campus. More than 100 undergraduate students, master and PhD students, research and academic staff participated the workshop.
In 27thSeptember, a round table seminar was held on education of Information Literacy in Higher Education and Society. Managers and practitioners from national public library, university library are invited to discuss the current status of information literacy education in libraries, the design and implementation of information literacy curriculum system, and how to carry out international cooperation in information literacy education.
The topics of the seminar included the curriculum development of library information Literacy Education, Implementation experience of integrated information literacy education, development of information literacy ability in the teaching of specialized courses, and current situation and prospect of international cooperation in information literacy education.
Lei Wang, Director of Reference and Consultant of National Library of China, made a presentation on the education of information literacy from the perspective of referencing in library. Jifang Song, Director of Renmin University Library introduced the practice of information literacy education in Renming University. Jia Lin from the library of Tshinghua University, discussed the education of information literacy in the era of “Internet +”.
During the workshop, librarians and faculty staff from Beihang University, Chinese Agriculture University also participated the discussion on information literacy education in higher institutions and in society in large.
Public exhibition of information literacy was organized in libraries on Zhongguancun and Liangxiang Campus from 26thSeptember to 28thSeptember.