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Views of Legal Scholars About the Concept of Information Literacy in the Field of Law: Case Study of a Law Faculty in the Republic of Croatia

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This study is one of the results of a wider research, which investigates the views and opinions of legal scholars regarding the concept of IL and information skills and needs of today’s students, particularly of information skills in the field of law. This would allow for a deeper understanding of the context of IL in the field of law and offer insights into the required generic skills of IL and contextual information skills from the standpoint of legal scholars. The study used qualitative method of in-depth interviews based on Relational Model by Christine Bruce with academic staff in a case study at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka. At the theoretical level, the desire was to stimulate discussion and awareness of the importance of the concept of IL in the field of law and open the way for further research.

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  1. Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

    Dejana Golenko

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  1. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Esther Grassian

  5. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

    Loriene Roy

  7. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Tolga Çakmak

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Golenko, D. (2016). Views of Legal Scholars About the Concept of Information Literacy in the Field of Law: Case Study of a Law Faculty in the Republic of Croatia. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society. ECIL 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 676. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_37

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