Digital Literacy

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With social media and a myriad of devices on which to post and view, we may have the impression that many of us are digitally literate.  As an academic librarian, I can see first hand how fast developments in information publishing and accessing are changing and the challenge is to ensure that academics and students that I deal with have the skills to find, retrieve, analyse and evaluate the information that meets their needs. This may be for research purposes, writing, publishing or assessment purposes.  Hence I am currently doing the 23 Things of Digital Literacy from Edinburgh University and hope to be able to utilise knowledge and skills from this course into my everyday working practice. I think the quote below sums up my sentiments nicely.

"It has become a truism that the information landscape is an ever changing environment. However, one aspect of that landscape which remains constant, is the need to develop the research skills of graduates in order to influence their information-seeking behaviour, their academic attainment and their professional practice."



Morris, L., & Bower, K. (2016). Digital Literacy is Health Literacy.Collaborate: Libraries in Learning Innovation, (1) retrieved from https://ojs.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/index.php/COL/article/view/4419.
Location: Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia

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