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New publication! The Road to Information Literacy : Librarians as facilitators of learning | IFLA

New publication! The Road to Information Literacy : Librarians as facilitators of learning | IFLA | The Information Professional | Scoop.it
#pilgf http://t.co/Np3CHmmt Here is the book where article Lonka (2012) about theoretical foundations for engaging learning!
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By Roisin Gwyer, Ruth Stubbings & Graham Walton (Eds.)

Series: IFLA Publications Series 157 
Publisher: Berlin/Munich: De Gruyter Saur, 2012


"Information literacy has been identified as a necessary skill for life, work and citizenship - as well as for academic study - for all of us living in today's information society. This international collection brings together practitioner and research papers from all sectors of information work. It includes case studies and good practice guides, including how librarians and information workers can facilitate information literacy from pre-school children to established researchers, digital literacy and information literacy for citizens."

 

Publisher's link: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/181777?format=G

 

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Create Your Own Digital Document Library on the Web with Invenio, by Robin Good

Create Your Own Digital Document Library on the Web with Invenio, by Robin Good | The Information Professional | Scoop.it

 

Robin Good: "Invenio is an open-source software allowing anyone to build and maintain a professional document library on the web.

 

Invenio provides all the tols needed to coordinate all of the aspects of digital library management, from document ingestion through classification, indexing, and curation to dissemination.

 

Invenio complies with standards such as the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocol (OAI-PMH) and uses MARC 21 as its underlying bibliographic format. Invenio outputs / exports its contents in multiple formats including: HTML, XML, OAI, MARC.

 

Invenio has been originally developed at CERN to run the CERN document server, managing over 1,000,000 bibliographic records in high-energy physics since 2002, covering articles, books, journals, photos, videos, and more."

 

Key features: http://invenio-software.org/wiki/General/Features

 

Sites already using it: http://invenio-software.org/wiki/General/Demo

 

More info: http://invenio-software.org/

 

P.S.: You will need a technical person to download and install the Invenio software.

(Download page: http://invenio-software.org/wiki/Installation/Download)

 

 


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