Project on information literacy for Vietnamese librarians just started
12-12-2005 (Hanoi)
Vietnamese students learning to search for information using library databases
Tran Anh Tuan/© HUFS
Vietnamese academic librarians are now being trained in the area of information literacy in a project that was recently launched with funds from UNESCO’s Information for All Programme.
The project on information literacy, a process providing people skills and abilities for critical reception, assessment and use of information in their professional and personal lifes, is being run jointly by the Hanoi University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) Centre Library and Vietnam Development Information Center (VDIC).
“Vietnamese libraries and information networks are underdeveloped. There is also a lack of information specialists trained under international standards. As a result, library users do not know how to access information and effectively use it for lifelong learning,“ explains UNESCO project officer Susanne Ornager.
While Ornager expects that information literacy programmes are not likely to be introduced in school libraries in Vietnam in the near future, she observes an urgent need to equip higher education students with information literacy skills, essential both for their learning and future working lives.
Therefore, the new UNESCO project will be a great support for capacity building of selected Vietnamese academic library professionals. It aims at developing their information literacy and training skills in order to enable them to make the best use of available resources, as well as to teach other professionals and to share knowledge through personal, regional and international networks.
Within 12-month period, the project activities will include four phases:
“Vietnamese libraries and information networks are underdeveloped. There is also a lack of information specialists trained under international standards. As a result, library users do not know how to access information and effectively use it for lifelong learning,“ explains UNESCO project officer Susanne Ornager.
While Ornager expects that information literacy programmes are not likely to be introduced in school libraries in Vietnam in the near future, she observes an urgent need to equip higher education students with information literacy skills, essential both for their learning and future working lives.
Therefore, the new UNESCO project will be a great support for capacity building of selected Vietnamese academic library professionals. It aims at developing their information literacy and training skills in order to enable them to make the best use of available resources, as well as to teach other professionals and to share knowledge through personal, regional and international networks.
Within 12-month period, the project activities will include four phases:
- selection of appropriate key information professionals from about 10 major academic libraries in various Vietnamese regions;
- development of pre-course readings and exploration of information literacy practice in other academic environments;
- organization of a round table meeting at the Hanoi University of Foreign Studies;
- report by the participants on their individual and networking activities.
A volunteer conducting an information literacy class Tran Anh Tuan/© HUFS
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