TY - GEN
T1 - Strengthening Information Literacy Competencies through Incorporating Personal Information Management Skills
AU - Majid, Shaheen
AU - Chang, Yun Ke
AU - Foo, Schubert
AU - Mokhtar, Intan Azura
AU - Theng, Yin Leng
AU - Zhang, Xue
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Information Literacy (IL) and Personal Information Management (PIM) are two closely related and overlapping concepts. However, most of the existing IL models and standards do not put adequate emphasis on relevant PIM skills. This paper provides an overview of different PIM techniques and discusses their relationship with IL competencies. Proper integration of PIM techniques and tools into IL skills is likely to further strengthen competency level of an information literate person, resulting in saving time, effort and resources. This integration can also help overcome the problems of information overload and information fragmentation. This paper argues that information literacy training programs need to expand their scope by incorporating appropriate PIM skills to provide a more comprehensive skill set to their information users.
AB - Information Literacy (IL) and Personal Information Management (PIM) are two closely related and overlapping concepts. However, most of the existing IL models and standards do not put adequate emphasis on relevant PIM skills. This paper provides an overview of different PIM techniques and discusses their relationship with IL competencies. Proper integration of PIM techniques and tools into IL skills is likely to further strengthen competency level of an information literate person, resulting in saving time, effort and resources. This integration can also help overcome the problems of information overload and information fragmentation. This paper argues that information literacy training programs need to expand their scope by incorporating appropriate PIM skills to provide a more comprehensive skill set to their information users.
KW - IL training
KW - information fragmentation
KW - Information literacy
KW - information overload
KW - personal information management
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0_43
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0_43
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904722342
SN - 9783319039183
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 331
EP - 337
BT - Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice - European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2013, Revised Selected Papers
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 1st European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2013
Y2 - 22 October 2013 through 25 October 2013
ER -