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Session D: DIGITAL LITERACY
How can we provide digital skills for our customers?
IT training
Conclusions from cyc4lib discussions regrding teaching ofdatabases & Internet skills:
- Multimedia space
- Self training room - software, how to create a website
- The content of the programme depends on the profile of the users.
We offer courses but the student don't come
Motivation comes from the amount of relevance that users feel that the training has for a future professional career.
Digital natives/residents also need improved digital literacy skills
Terminology discussion:
digital natives/immigrants
digital residents/visitors
How do we make every user group feel that they can learn something in the library?
Introductory sessions with new students about what the library can do for them.
Personal education. Challenge: do all users know how to describe their needs?
What is web-literacy ?
- Don't we project on the notion what the library itself could offer (database researches, how to download an ebook...) ?
Do we ask the patrons what they can do for the library = the community?
- Inter-generational teaching : the young people could teach the older how to use the digital tools they are knowing, and doing so, think about their own practice
Partners: local organizations, joint ventures,
How do we describe the problem ?
- People don't know how to use the library's digital ressources / People don't have the digital skills they need in their life
Web-literacy mapping (Mozilla Founadation)
- helps go over the librarian prospective
Library as a place for collaboration ?
- Developing the net-citizen responsability (not only from a consumering prospective)
- Involve the users to share their skills and resources.
- Virtual research environments