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Information Literacy at the
Universities in Slovenia
Utrecht Network staff training week, October 2011
Mirjam Kotar
University of Ljubljana
Slovenia
Two million people
20.273 km²
Ljubljana – the capital city
Higher education in Slovenia some data
Public higher education institutions:
4 universities 48 faculties, 3 art academies and 3 prof. colleges
Private higher education institutions:
1 university, 12 faculties and 14 professional colleges
The number of students has almost tripled since 1991
Academic year Students Total
Undergraduate Postgraduate
1991/92 36.504 1.647 36.504
2009/10 82.379 15.900 98.279
Source: Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, 2011
University of Ljubljana
Historical overview of IL programs at the Slovenian universities
Library instructions
Regular course curriculum on one faculty at the University of Maribor in 1973
1974 - a conference for academic librarians responsible for IL programs quidelines for user education programs
Very little response from the schools authorities to this initiative
Source: Šauperl, Novljan, Grčar. 2007. Information Literacy Programs at the University of Ljubljana. The Journal of Academic Librarianship,
IL in primary and secondary education
- included in schools curricula -
Primary education:
from 1971 curriula „Book and library education“
since 1999 4 hours of IL in each of the nine academic years
+ an elective 35 hours course in the nine grade
Secondary education:
since 2000, updated 2008: obligatiory IL program: 15 hours of teaching
by a subject teacher and a librarian.
Source: Šauperl, Novljan, Grčar. 2007. Information Literacy Programs at the University of Ljubljana. The Journal of Academic Librarianship
Strategic framework for development of Information Literacy in Slovenia
Republic of Slovenia and Information Society: the Strategy
(2003)
The Strategy of Slovenian Development (2005)
National Strategy for Literacy Development (2005)
The State Development Program 2007-2013 (2006)
Resolution on the National Higher Education Programme
2011–2020 (2011)
Slovenian qualification framework (in preparation)
Activities for accelerating IL at Slovene universities
Conference Information Literacy between Theory and Practice: the Role of Academic and Special Libraries (2006)
Document Starting Points for Awareness Raising and Implementation of Information Literacy at the Universities in Slovenia (2006)
Translation of the ACRL standards for higher education into Slovenian (2010)
University of Ljubljana and IL
Strategy 2006-2009 of the University of Ljubljana (2006)
Committee for Library System Development – working group
for IL
document Starting Points for Awareness Raising and
Implementation of Information Literacy at the Universities in
Slovenia (2006)
Survey on information literacy programmes (2007/08)
University of Ljubljana – survey 2008
Observations:
A lot of respondents assumed that IL is the same as
computer/digital literacy
Most of the training IL programmes did not cover all IL
competences
Variations of IL programmes:
o optional or. mandate IL courses
o Integrative approach
o IL training organized by a library (optional for students)
Slovenian standards, 2010
Expert meeting INFORMATION LITERACY IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 2011 Proposals to:
include IL competencies in Slovenian qualification framework
include IL in strategic documents (national level, universities,
faculties), in evaluation and quality assurance criteria, in
pedagogy excelence criteria
develop strategic partnerships between actors in higher
education
promote IL in curriculum development, in implementation
and evaluation of study programmes
develop and strenghten training of trainers
develop and share good practices of IL programmes and
study materials
promote IL among different publics
Problems = opportunities
How to make the university and financial authorities more responsive to the IL development proposals?
How to develop startegic partnerships between all
actors in the study process?
Professional role of academic librarians?
Information Literacy at the
Universities in Slovenia
Utrecht Network staff training week, October 2011
Mirjam Kotar