Information illiteracy: Examining our assumptions

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 313-319

  Green, Rosemary ^a  

^a SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77954563756     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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6. Green.
7. Over the course of thirteen months, I conducted interviews with five American and six Australian librarians, eight American and ten Australian doctoral candidates, and six American and seven Australian doctoral advisors.
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10. Green, p. 161.
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15. Green and Macauley, p. 320.
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18. Green and Macauley, p. 320. For examples, see Wendy Abbott and Dianne Selzer, "Getting Connected, Getting Ahead: Developing Research Students' Information Skills in an Online Learning Environment" (paper presented at the Lifelong Learning Conference, Central Queensland University, Yeppoon, Australia, June 16-19, 2002); and Bruce E. Winston and Dail L. Fields, "Developing Dissertation Skills of Doctoral Students in an Internet-Based Education Curriculum: A Case Study," American Journal of Distance Education 17, 3 (2003): 161-72.
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20. Green, p. 167.
21. Ibid., p. 168.
22. Ibid., p. 166.
23. Ibid., p. 167.
24. Macauley Peter Menace, Missionary Zeal or Welcome Partner? Librarian Involvement in the Information Literacy of Doctoral Researchers. New Review of Libraries and Lifelong Learning 2001, 2:58.
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30. Norgaard Rolf Writing Information Literacy: Contributions to a Concept. Reference & User Services Quarterly 2003, 43(2):126.
31. Tuominen Kimmo, Savolainen Reijo, Talja Sanna Information Literacy as Sociotechnical Practice. Library Quarterly 2005, 75(3):341.
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33. Lloyd Anne Information Literacy Landscapes: An Emerging Picture. Journal of Documentation 2006, 62(5):570-583.
34. Ibid., p. 580.
35. Green, p. 169.
36. Australian doctoral advisors are known as "supervisors.".
37. Green, p. 170.
38. Ibid., p. 171.
39. Ibid., p. 171-172.
40. Ibid., p. 172.
41. Carole George and others, Scholarly Use of Information: Graduate Students' Information Seeking Behavior (Pittsburg PA: Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, 2006). Available: (August 18, 2006). http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=ca role_george.
42. Green and Macauley.
43. Ibid., p. 325.
44. Green, p. 173.
45. Ibid., p. 172-173.
46. Elmborg James Critical Information Literacy: Implications for Instructional Practice. Journal of Academic Librarianship 2006, 32(2):198.
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48. ACRL Standard Three, outcomes 4.a. and 7.a. state, "Determines if original information need has been satisfied or if additional information is needed," (p.12). ANZIIL Standard Three, example 3.3 makes the same statement.
49. Green, p. 177.
50. Ibid., p. 178.
51. Christine Bruce, "When Enough is Enough: Or How Should Research Students Delimit the Scope of Their Literature Review?" in Challenging the Conventional Wisdom in Higher Education: Selected Contributions presented at the Nineteenth Annual National Conference and Twenty-First Birthday Celebration of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, eds. Greg Ryan, Penny Little, and Ian Dunn, 435-439 (Sydney: University of New South Wales, 1994); and Christine Bruce, "Interpreting the Scope of Their Literature Reviews: Significant Differences in Research Students' Concerns," New Library World, 102, 4 (2001): 158-166.
52. Bruce "When Enough is Enough," p. 435.
53. Green, p. 177.
54. Lloyd.
55. Elmborg, p. 193.
56. Ibid., p. 195.
57. Green and Macauley.