Jasmin Hügi

Information Literacy Competences of LIS-Students in Switzerland – A Case Study

This paper analyzes the information literacy competences of Swiss Library and Information Science students, in the context of the international Information Literacy Survey, supervised by the Department of Information Science at Hacettepe University of Ankara. The study has been conducted by the Department of Information Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Geneva in collaboration with the Information Science Department at the University of Applied Sciences in Chur. For this study, a very small convenience sampling method has been used. Therefore, the findings are not representative for the basic population of all LIS bachelor students in Switzerland, but refer only to the respondents.

Building an online environment for usefulness evaluation

In this paper we present a methodological framework for usefulness evaluation of digital libraries and information services that has been tested successfully in two case studies before developing a corresponding tool that may be used for further investigations. The tool is based on a combination of a knowledge base with exploitable and modifiable questions and an open source tool for online-questionnaires.

Linked Open Data Literacy for Librarians

Linked Data has become an important issue, not only for the process of building the web of data, but also for the mutual knowledge transfer between libraries and the web of data. Based on a study concerning Linked Open Data applications in libraries and the qualifications of future librarians involved in the development of such applications, we built a one day training program for academic librarians. The overall goal was to make librarians literate and heighten awareness concerning the Linked Open Data technology on a single day. With the help of that training program, the librarians should become cognitively able to reflect on the integration of Linked Data in their current working environment. We considered it therefore necessary to couple the training program with the development of cognitive strategies. In this paper we will give an in-depth description of the didactical approach, the theoretical and practical components as well as their possible combinations.

Digitale Bibliotheksangebote und ihre Evaluation. Ein Erfahrungsbericht

Der Artikel gibt ein breit gefasstes Fazit über die Evaluation digitaler Bibliotheksangebote, die im Rahmen des Verbundprojekts e-lib.ch in der Schweiz durchgeführt wurden. Er schildert die dabei verwendeten Methoden und ihre Besonderheit im bibliothekarischen Kontext und greift zurück auf verallgemeinbare Ergebnisse, die während eines Zeitraums von mehr als drei Jahren bei der Ermittlung der Gebrauchstauglichkeit und des Nutzungswert unterschiedlichster digitaler Angebote (u.a. Metakataloge, Informationsportale, Manuskriptdatenbanken und digitalisierte Rara-Bestände) gewonnen wurden. Von besonderem Interesse soll dabei auch sein, wie sich Bibliotheken zukünftig in ihrem Alltag sowie mit ähnlich ausgerichteten Projekten zu positionieren haben, um bereits in der Projektplanung den Anforderungen eines benutzerorientierten Gestaltungsprozesses ihrer digitalen Angebote gerecht zu werden. Darüber hinaus spielen auch Überlegungen zum Do-it-yourself vs. einer externen Beauftragung von Evaluationen eine Rolle.