Contribution Of An Information Literacy Programme To The Education Process: The Case Of A Greek Academic Library

摘要

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the contribution of, and the need for, informationrnliteracy and information literacy programmes in the undergraduate education process.rnDesign/methodology/approach - The paper presents the case of a Greek educational institute, viarnrelated research, and describes the information literacy programme of the Alexander TechnologicalrnEducation Institute of Thessaloniki (ATEITh). The paper is based on a study at the Institution withrnthe education staff and also the undergraduate students - patrons of the library. In both cases datarnwere gathered using the method of questionnaires.rnFindings - The results of the study reveal the usefulness of information literacy programmes, andrnthe need for the creation of an online information literacy tutorial in the ATEITh. The majority of thernrespondents in both studies believe that information literacy programmes could be exploited as arnmeans of instruction and should be integrated in the departments' curricula.rnPractical implications - The paper points up the contribution of the online information literacyrnprogramme in the teaching of courses dealing partially with information literacy that exist in therncurricula of some departments and the motive for the integration of an autonomous credit informationrnliteracy course in every curriculum.rnOriginality/value - The Library of the ATEITh is the first Greek academic library that through arnsurvey has highlighted the need for developing and evaluating information literacy programmes as arnmeans of reinforcing information literacy in the Greek academic community and at the same time it isrnthe first Greek academic library to have developed its own information literacy programme.