Abstract:
We need to evaluate, manage and teach the use of the information used in
learning and teaching activities for information literacy
skills.Information literacy, key to lifelong learning plays one important
role in higher education and it is related to information technology
skills.
The implications of “fluency” with information technology, computer
literacy and connexion between information literacy and higher education,
pedagogy were done by qualitative marketing research applied on
TRANSILVANIA university students.
There were tested 2 models:
This study
surveyed 400 users and employed a lifestyle segmentation approach for
categorising the users.Based on an analysis of the goals of information
seeking research, and a view on human task performance augmentation, it is
then shown that information seeking is intimately associated with, and
dependent on, other aspects of work; tasks and technology included. This
leads to a discussion on design and evaluation frameworks for information
seeking and retrieval, based on which there are proposed two action lines:
information retrieval research needs extension toward more context and
information seeking research needs extension towards tasks and technology.
In particular, the search process and its sub-categories search situation
and transition, and the relationship between these are discussed. To
justify the method schema an empirical study was designed according to the
schema's specifications. In the paper a subset of the study is presented
analysing the effects of work tasks on Web information searching. Findings
from this small-scale study indicate a strong relationship between the
work task goal and the level of relevance used for judging resources
during search processes.
Paying due attention to the goal of augmenting work task performance we
turn information seeking much closer to disciplines such as information
management, information systems, organizational design etc. Information
seeking research may lose some of its independence but gain a better
ability to communicate across disciplinary boundaries, thereby becoming
more relevant in the eyes of the others. We feel that there is much demand
for research along these lines.
Using people's work task as a point of departure for understanding what
generates their searching will often be fruitful, and the Search Situation
and Transition method schema can be used for that purpose. It will be
useful to learn more about the context of people's actual interaction with
information systems for several reasons. Therefore, the isolated attempts
at attacking the problems from one tradition or the other should be
reduced in favour of research that combines seeking and searching issues.
Brief
Biography of the Speaker:
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
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From December
2003, by contest, Professor at the Fine Mechanics and Mechatronics
Department , Mechanical Engineering Faculty and Department of Library
Science, Letters Faculty
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From 2001-2008
University Library Director
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From 2006-2008,
President of National Commision Library
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From 2005,
Coordinator of the area of specialisation Information Science and
Communication within the Faculty of Letters, open and distance learning;
POST GRADUATE
SPECIALISATION:
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1999 PhD in
Technical Sciences
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2003
Postgraduate training course - Quality Management
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2006
Postgraduate training course - Communication and Information Sciences
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From 2006 PHd
candidate in field of Economical Science, Marketing , cotutela Library
Science
COMPETENCIES
SKILLS
SCIENTIFIC
ACTIVITY:
Books published in main publishing houses: 8
Articles published: 157
Patents: 1
RESEARCH ACTIVITY:
Director of 5 research national projects in engineering applied in library
science
INITIATION and DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES:
LEONARDO DA VINCI PROJECT 2005-2006: No. RO/2005/95006/EX;
LEONARDO DA VINCI PROJECT 2003-2004: No. RO/2003/PL 91017/EX
MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
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Member AGIR
(General Association of Engineers in Romania)
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Member SRMTA
(Romanian Ssociety of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)
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European
Association for Health Information and Libraries ( EAHIL)
