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Information Literacy and Information Culture in Higher Education Institutions in Estonia

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Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability (ECIL 2015)

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Information culture is an important component of an organization. This paper focuses on the information culture of higher education institutions (HEIs) in Estonia and reports the results of a study that aimed to explore the relationship between information culture including information literacy, information management and satisfaction with job and leadership as well as self-reported individual performance. Factor analysis revealed three types of information culture: (1) integrated; (2) pro-active; and (3) informal. A significant correlation was found between information culture with integrated information sharing and use (type 1), and satisfaction with job and leadership as well as self-reported individual performance. It could be suggested that the construct of information culture consisting of values, norms and behaviours related to information sharing and use in organisations is a valuable construct in analysing information environments and relations with job satisfaction, leadership style and self-reported performance of HEIs in Estonia.

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  1. Institute of Information Studies, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Liia Lauri & Sirje Virkus

  2. Institute of Psychology, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Mati Heidmets

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  1. Dept. of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye

    Serap Kurbanoglu

  2. DICEN IDF EA 7369, Université Paris Descartes DICEN IDF EA 7369, Paris, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  5. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. School of Information, The University of Texas School of Information, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Lauri, L., Heidmets, M., Virkus, S. (2015). Information Literacy and Information Culture in Higher Education Institutions in Estonia. In: Kurbanoglu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability. ECIL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 552. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28197-1_51

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