Anne Cordier

Information Literacy, Transliteracy and Information Culture Development in France: What the Teacher-Librarian Can Change

A research project on French high school pupils’ information curriculum was conducted for the development of a media and information culture construction. Researchers observed, recorded and interviewed 150 pupils in groups and individually during a research activity in 3 different high-schools. The project was based on a qualitative, ethnographic methodology to observe information and pupils’ transliterate practices on one hand, and the training practices of teachers-librarians on the other hand. The results show the importance of the teacher librarian’s commitment to the transliteracy process.

Collaboration and Empowerment in Transliteracy at School

Information literacy has long been considered an important aspect in school, as well as in the workplace. Teenagers are the first group affected by requirements based on information skills. Transliteracy occurs as a relevant concept to understand these information practices. Indeed, a holistic approach is needed in order to take into account the multiplicity of contexts of uses and interactions. The research work described here proceeds from a program funded by the French national research agency (ANR Translit 2013–2016) focusing on how high-school students (15–16 years old) manage information with all the available media and tools, individually as well as collectively. Based on ethnographic methodology, the study was carried out between November 2013 and March 2015, in five French high schools during specific learning project based activities. Findings demonstrate that activities and knowledge management on the school workplace must take into consideration complex information skills crossing personal competencies, representations, and self-esteem on one hand, school requirements and context on the other; complex social interactions during information activities; postures and spaces encouraging horizontal learning processes between teachers and students in order to build a community of practice. Our results highlight what is directly visible and what remains implicit. They are likely to be useful for teachers as well decision-makers when designing learning scenarios and guidelines or curricula.

Circulation sociale des discours utopistes technologiques de la performance : Le cas des systèmes de recherche d'information

Nous nous proposons ici d’interroger les modalites selon lesquelles sont presentes les systemes de recherche d’information dans des publications a destination du monde de la documentation, au croisement des discours de concepteurs et des discours de professionnels. Cette analyse critique visera a interroger la place de l’humain face au primat fort de la performance des systemes de recherche d’information, la consideration de la mediation par le professionnel, mais aussi le rapport sous-jacent entre acces et appropriation de l’information et du document. L’etude se base sur un corpus d’articles (2000-2014), issus de deux revues francophones specialisees en documentation, et symbolisees par leur caractere professionnel : le Bulletin des Bibliotheques de France, et la revue Documentaliste-Sciences de l’Information [1] .