ascribing a democratic role to libraries and activities related to information literacy. Design/methodology/approach The … connections between democracy and libraries as well as between citizenship and information literacy are analysed by using Mouffe … efforts to include the less privileged. The inclusion of a democratic aim, directed towards everyone, for libraries in the new …

for and rights to information which lie behind the establishment of privately and publicly owned libraries, to consider … how far these assumptions are valid, and finally to discuss the proper part to be played by privately owned libraries in … charters and terms of reference of a variety of libraries and from official statements about library provision. Findings …

practices support the research process. This paper could inform academic libraries on how to support scholars throughout the …

. These categories are assigned point values and statistically analyzed to evaluate students and examine interrater … students and a greater understanding of student strengths and weaknesses. The ILIAC encourages librarians to articulate … improves students' ability to evaluate web sites for authority. Research limitations/implications – The research focuses on …

contradictory cultures of print and digital. The aim of the paper is to provide a better understanding of the ways in which students … provides increased empirically based understanding of students' information literacy practices. Four non‐exclusive approaches …

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to profile the information seeking behaviour of nursing students, according to … learning style, personality and self‐efficacy in information literacy. Such profiles should help students to reflect on their … administered to nursing students ( n =261, response rate 74 per cent, 194/261) at one UK university. Findings – Neither information …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how students construct narratives of themselves as information …/methodology/approach – Blog posts on credibility judgements written by 28 students at a Swedish upper secondary school were analysed through a … bottom-up coding process based in the sociocultural concept of narratives of selves. Findings – Two tensions in the students …