Formazione dell'utente, formazione del bibliotecario
| Main Author: | Zani, Maurizio |
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| Format: | Proceeding NonPeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | it |
| Terbitan: |
, 2008
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/11589/1/formazione_%5Bmodalita_compatibilita%5D.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/11589/ |
Daftar Isi:
- The recent publication of a version of ACRL standards for information literacy, specifically cut to respond to the needs of users with technical-scientific interests, is an important stimulus for the Italian academic libraries as well. This last document has substantially the same form as the general standard but, at the same time, it discloses a development in users’ training closer to the specific needs of scientific library users. The need to offer professionals and researchers the right tools for their professional life-long training must be retained as crucial. Even if information literacy has meant more than simply implementation of user education in libraries, today we need a more complex dialogue between librarians and users searching for information. It is an uphill dialogue mainly because the traditionally difficulty of communication between the humanistic and scientific world is made concrete by a difficult relationship between humanistic-oriented librarian and scientific-oriented students/professors. Briefly, the user’s training is carried on at the reference desk, in the research and finding of requested article, in consulting a catalogue and he development of structured courses completes this process. On the other hand, if our users most time are disintermediated, it is necessary for us to give up the traditional pens and work on tools to adopt, on communication techniques, on language itself. If librarians want to shift from their role of mediators to the role of educators, they need a preparation based on the theories developed in the field of information behaviours and specifically to know the needs, the habits and the necessary documentation for engineers, scientists, astronomers etc. All these categories often have different approaches to research and analysis of information. This sensibility towards information research has been developed throughout there years in many papers by engineers and scientists; the reading of these papers can help us develop a sensibility and give us the tools to interact with this group of users and their peculiar characteristics.