Introduction. Literacy is a major predictor of education, income, and health. Both historically and currently, libraries have been leaders in promoting literacy globally. The objective of this research is to determine if countries with higher metrics related to the Sustainable Development Goals also demonstrate evidence of stronger relationships between library usage and literacy. Method. Using data from the World Bank, UNESCO, the United Nations and the IFLA Map of the World, the author grouped countries several different ways by income levels, the Human Development Index, literacy rate, and the Gender Inequality Index in order to explore the relationship between literacy and library usage in each categorization. Analysis. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient was used to determine if there is a relationship between the variables. Results. In the grouping of countries by HDI, literacy, progress, GII and income, the correlation coefficients generally increased for each individual library usage statistic as the indicator improved. Conclusion. In groupings of countries with higher metrics of societal health, correlation rates between library usage and literacy increase from country groups with lower rates of those metrics.
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Introduction. The aim of this study is to describe how the concept of multiliteracies is interpreted by teachers and librarians. Method. Two qualitative research projects involving teachers’ and librarians’ interviews are combined in this study. Individual and group interviews are analysed to explore the conceptions of teachers and librarians on multiliteracies. Analysis. Interviews are analysed using an inductive approach. Data categorisation is discussed and decided by both authors together. Results. The results indicate that there are differences in conceptualising multiliteracies and in the confidence in defining the concept between teachers and librarians. In addition, the concept of multiliteracies is seen as both a skills set and a pedagogical tool. Conclusions. There is a need for conceptual clarification of multiliteracies both in grassroots-level work and in the curriculum context to avoid multiple interpretations of the concept and to guide how multiliteracies could be pedagogically implemented.
{"title":"Librarians’ and teachers’ conceptions of multiliteracies in the context of Finnish curriculum reform","authors":"Siinamari Ylivuori, Anu Ojaranta","doi":"10.47989/ir284506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/ir284506","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction. The aim of this study is to describe how the concept of multiliteracies is interpreted by teachers and librarians. Method. Two qualitative research projects involving teachers’ and librarians’ interviews are combined in this study. Individual and group interviews are analysed to explore the conceptions of teachers and librarians on multiliteracies. Analysis. Interviews are analysed using an inductive approach. Data categorisation is discussed and decided by both authors together. Results. The results indicate that there are differences in conceptualising multiliteracies and in the confidence in defining the concept between teachers and librarians. In addition, the concept of multiliteracies is seen as both a skills set and a pedagogical tool. Conclusions. There is a need for conceptual clarification of multiliteracies both in grassroots-level work and in the curriculum context to avoid multiple interpretations of the concept and to guide how multiliteracies could be pedagogically implemented.","PeriodicalId":509289,"journal":{"name":"Information Research an international electronic journal","volume":"59 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139178564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Introduction. We investigated the main research topics of digital humanities in China from 2012 to 2021, as well as the journals, authors, and institutions that produced the most research in this field. Method. Based on a sample of relevant digital humanities literature from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database, we applied bibliometric methods and visualisation tools for a longitudinal examination. Analysis. This study took CNKI as the data source and extracted keywords for an analysis of the research output, intellectual structures, and distribution features of authors and institutions. Results. Digital humanities research in China is strongly associated with library and information science, with eight major reoccurring topics and themes identified. The leading research contributors in China are authors and institutions that are also identified and highlighted. Conclusions. Digital humanities research in China rapidly grew between 2012 and 2021. This study depicts the overall situation and knowledge structure of the research and establishes a benchmark for further theoretical research and practical innovation of digital humanities in China.
{"title":"A bibliometric study of digital humanities research in China from 2012 to 2021","authors":"Fangli Su, Shihao Li, Qinghua Liu, Yin Zhang","doi":"10.47989/ir284336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/ir284336","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction. We investigated the main research topics of digital humanities in China from 2012 to 2021, as well as the journals, authors, and institutions that produced the most research in this field. Method. Based on a sample of relevant digital humanities literature from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database, we applied bibliometric methods and visualisation tools for a longitudinal examination. Analysis. This study took CNKI as the data source and extracted keywords for an analysis of the research output, intellectual structures, and distribution features of authors and institutions. Results. Digital humanities research in China is strongly associated with library and information science, with eight major reoccurring topics and themes identified. The leading research contributors in China are authors and institutions that are also identified and highlighted. Conclusions. Digital humanities research in China rapidly grew between 2012 and 2021. This study depicts the overall situation and knowledge structure of the research and establishes a benchmark for further theoretical research and practical innovation of digital humanities in China.","PeriodicalId":509289,"journal":{"name":"Information Research an international electronic journal","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139178486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Introduction. The new generation of information technology changes the ways of information seeking. Conversational agents start to be applied in public to support information seeking and decision making and provide a variety of services to users such as healthcare education and consultation. The information quality of conversational agents for healthcare determines the quality of these services, while identifying critical dimensions used to assess the agents’ information quality that helps better strategise priorities for ensuring information quality has received limited attention in the literature. Method. This study conducted a questionnaire survey to investigate the critical dimensions of information quality of healthcare conversational agents. After excluding two responses from participants who declined to fill in the questionnaire, this study retained 231 responses for data analysis, out of the total 233 participants who initially responded to the survey. Analysis. The research describes the demographic information of the participants, the behavioural characteristics of using healthcare conversational agents, and the critical dimensions of information quality of the agents perceived by the participants in the survey, employing descriptive statistics. Furthermore, ANOVA was employed to compare the variances in the perceived importance of information quality dimensions between participants who had used a healthcare conversational agent and those who had not. Results. Understandability and trustworthiness were the two top concerns for the information quality of the agents from the participants’ perspective in this study. Conclusions. Results of the study show that the experience of using or not using the agents affected the participants’ perceived importance of the agent’ information quality dimensions.
{"title":"Critical information quality dimensions of conversational agents for healthcare","authors":"Caihua Liu, Guochao Peng, Shufeng Kong, Chaowang Lan, Haoliang Zhu","doi":"10.47989/ir284561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47989/ir284561","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction. The new generation of information technology changes the ways of information seeking. Conversational agents start to be applied in public to support information seeking and decision making and provide a variety of services to users such as healthcare education and consultation. The information quality of conversational agents for healthcare determines the quality of these services, while identifying critical dimensions used to assess the agents’ information quality that helps better strategise priorities for ensuring information quality has received limited attention in the literature. Method. This study conducted a questionnaire survey to investigate the critical dimensions of information quality of healthcare conversational agents. After excluding two responses from participants who declined to fill in the questionnaire, this study retained 231 responses for data analysis, out of the total 233 participants who initially responded to the survey. Analysis. The research describes the demographic information of the participants, the behavioural characteristics of using healthcare conversational agents, and the critical dimensions of information quality of the agents perceived by the participants in the survey, employing descriptive statistics. Furthermore, ANOVA was employed to compare the variances in the perceived importance of information quality dimensions between participants who had used a healthcare conversational agent and those who had not. Results. Understandability and trustworthiness were the two top concerns for the information quality of the agents from the participants’ perspective in this study. Conclusions. Results of the study show that the experience of using or not using the agents affected the participants’ perceived importance of the agent’ information quality dimensions.","PeriodicalId":509289,"journal":{"name":"Information Research an international electronic journal","volume":"94 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139178755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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