Visibility of information literacy services of spanish academic libraries according to their websites: Design and validation of a self-assessment tool

Pinto M. ; García-Marco F.-J. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Uribe-Tirado A. ; Martínez-Osorio P.

Resumen: A new evaluation and self-evaluation tool designed to measure the degree of visibility of the information literacy (infolit) services of Spanish academic libraries according to their websites is presented, together with the results of its application between October 2019 and February 2020. Building on the state of the art established by international organiza-tions and the most prominent scholars in the field, the Metrics for Library Information Literacy (MeLIL) questionnaire also incorporates emerging problems in contemporary information literacy such as mobile learning, fake news, data literacy, transparency, and open science, among others. MeLIL is made up of six criteria and 38 indicators. After a pilot project with eight libraries to validate the questionnaire, the content of the websites on information literacy programs of the 78 Spanish academic libraries was analyzed. The results confirm the validity and transferability of the instrument to measure the level of development of infolit in Spanish academic libraries according to their websites. Furthermore, the progress made in the training and infolit services offered by Spanish academic libraries is systematically described. © 2021, El Profesional de la Informacion. All rights reserved.

Idioma: Español

DOI: 10.3145/epi.2021.may.16

Año: 2021

Publicado en: Profesional de la Informacion 30, 3 (2021), [25 pp]
ISSN: 1386-6710

Factor impacto JCR: 3.596 (2021)

Categ. JCR: INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE rank: 31 / 83 = 0.373 (2021) - Q2 - T2
Categ. JCR: COMMUNICATION rank: 29 / 95 = 0.305 (2021) - Q2 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 4.5 - Social Sciences (Q1) - Computer Science (Q2)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.831 - Communication (Q1) - Information Systems (Q1) - Cultural Studies (Q1)

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Biblioteconomía y Docum. (Dpto. Ciencias Doc. Hª Ciencia)