A Comparative Study of Electronic Information Literacy Levels of Researchers: Instances from the Universities of Kastamonu and Çankırı Karatekin in Turkey
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2018
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Ankara : Ankara Üniversitesi
Abstract
With information and communications technologies (ICTs) and scientific
developments, not only the nature and environment of information acquisition
but also perception, learning and research have been reshaped and new tools,
methods, and notions have arisen. With this study it is aimed to determine the
electronic information literacy levels of researchers of two universities in
Turkey: Kastamonu and Çankırı Karatekin. The study considers the challenges
of whether the researchers have received any support from the related library;
whether their electronic information literacy activities and skills are sufficient
and whether there is any significant difference between the two universities or
not. Determination of levels of research oriented information skills will help
and enable the infant libraries of these two universities to review and include
in their plans and strategies new services and models of information literacy
practices. Related literature is reviewed and a structured survey was used as a
technique for data collection. The data set of this study based on a descriptive
and comparative methods is analyzed with MS Excel program. Findings
showed that the electronic information literacy skills and levels of researchers
are generally low and that there is no significant difference between the levels
of researchers of the two universities. It was concluded that increase in
effectiveness of electronic information literacy skills will increase the
academic productivity of the researchers.
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Electronic information literacy, Kastamonu University, Çankırı Karatekin University