The focus of this category is on acquiring a set of attitudes which are required to achieve work‘s activities effectively. The primary key factor here is the human ability to perform duties in the way which satisfy other individuals involve in the same context and to meet the employers‘ requirements
Information literacy is the ability to do the job perfectly. A literate house wife is the lady who can do her house‘s work perfectly. She is able to make her family, husband and children all happy and satisfied. (SL7)
We are all, I mean in the schools, working under the umbrella of the Ministry of Education. Therefore, identifying the meaning of information literacy is not the staff responsibility rather it is the Ministry of Education (laughing). You need to ask the Minister of Education what he thinks information literacy means (laughing). As an employer all I have to do is what I have been told to do, I do not have to create. (SL18)
According to this category, the main focus was in the workplace as the context. Participants usually used the term work to reflect their official duties despite the nature of those duties. Attention is largely given to individual‘s role in, and engagement with, his/her work‘s environment as a context where information literacy is required.
Information literacy is someone ability to do the work‘s duties, whatever the work is, successfully. The literate farmer is the famer who knows when, what and where to plant the seeds also when to harvest the output. People who are committed to their works, do
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their job perfectly and as they have been asked to do are information literate .Those people understand the game roles and play to win. (SL 8)
The role of the student within this category is to be a productive student. The student needs to know how to achieve academically in order to be able to attend the university which becomes a dream for low skills students. Therefore, the greater emphasis was given to study skills, rather than IL. For example, being able to adopt effective questioning processes, gaining high marks, and developing good understanding and communication within the classroom, which is the students main work environment, is IL
I think the information literate student is the student who is tactful, committed to his classroom; writes his homework; asks his teacher to clarify unclear lessons, he can meet the deadlines without problems. He is the one who can achieve his studying duties perfectly. (SL16)
A few school librarians saw the idea of being information literate as not going beyond the classroom setting. Information literate student is a student how can achieve the relevant duties as required by acquiring the suitable academic skills and competencies.
The student at the end of the day is a student; I mean his job is to be a student. You need to know that being an information literate student in our school means to be able to deal with a huge amount of complicated information overloaded in the curriculum and textbooks. Today, our kids are under pressure to achieve high marks to be able to study in the university which became the dream of high standard students so what do you think about low standard. In my opinion, the information literate student is the one who can get high marks, achieve his academic work and meet the teachers‘ requirements without causing any headache to anyone including the parents. So he doesn‘t need to be creative but rather hard working and keen. (SL 5)
Being productive was clearly a goal for librarian also. Commitment, self development, self- motivation and hard working are all attitudes must be a main part of information literate school librarian who is, according to this category, a productive employee able to develop the required skills to meet the challenges and changes in the school library field.
I think an information literate school librarian must be self-motivated and hard working person. Both attitudes are very important to create the characteristics of an information
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literate librarian. He must be able to develop his skills as the new market requires. For example, as a school librarian, I know that the most important information about school library is published in English; therefore, I must improve my English to be able to update myself. To learn how to access Internet to gain the newest information about the school libraries services worldwide must be one of the most important skills the information literate school librarian must have.(SL 17)
Being active, open minded and good communicator are also significant attitudes to be a productive employee as well as information literate
SL1: I think information literate school librarian is a messenger and his library holds his messages. To be able to distribute these messages to his community the school librarian must be able to love, understand and communicate openly. (Silent) he needs to learn how to adopt and follow the regulations and at the same time perform his work in perfect way. To be productive you need to be active rather than creative
Interviewer: well how productivity is different from creativity, could you explain that?
SL1: oooohhhh, productivity means achieving the duties during short time with high quality while creativity to make something new, to innovate something, you wanted to achieve and that takes time. I mean as an employee you need productivity rather than creativity. These are two different levels. Does that make sense to you? (Laughing)