Barriers When Advocating or Providing Information Literacy Instruction in Medical Institutions of Pakistan
This study aims to identify the factors which hinder the implementation of IL instructions programmes or prevent their systematic development in Pakistani medical institutions. This study adopted a two-phase, sequential mixed method research design. In first phase, head librarians of all (114) acade...
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University of the Punjab, Department of Information Management
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| description | This study aims to identify the factors which hinder the implementation of IL instructions programmes or prevent their systematic development in Pakistani medical institutions. This study adopted a two-phase, sequential mixed method research design. In first phase, head librarians of all (114) academic medical institutions in Pakistan were surveyed. Response rate was 61.5 %. In second phase, 20 purposively selected head librarians were interviewed. There was a consensus between the head librarians employed at public and private sector medical institutions that out of 12 barriers identified in this study, "lack of training opportunities for IL instruction for librarians" and "lack of policy regarding IL instruction in the medical institutions" were the two most significant barriers to IL instruction programmes in medical institutions. These findings suggest future direction for pre- and in-service education of librarians to prepare themselves to provide IL instruction. A clearly stipulated IL policy may be formulated and implemented in all medical institutions. The findings of this study are expected to enable medical librarians to be more aware of the barriers while planning and providing IL instruction in medical institutions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9a51ca2d9309478fb0ce5bfeeae770c32023-02-14T10:11:22ZengUniversity of the Punjab, Department of Information ManagementPakistan Journal of Information Management & Libraries2409-74622016-09-0117014615410.47657/pjim&l.v17i0.902459Barriers When Advocating or Providing Information Literacy Instruction in Medical Institutions of PakistanMidrar Ullah0Kanwal AmeenNational University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), RawalpindiThis study aims to identify the factors which hinder the implementation of IL instructions programmes or prevent their systematic development in Pakistani medical institutions. This study adopted a two-phase, sequential mixed method research design. In first phase, head librarians of all (114) academic medical institutions in Pakistan were surveyed. Response rate was 61.5 %. In second phase, 20 purposively selected head librarians were interviewed. There was a consensus between the head librarians employed at public and private sector medical institutions that out of 12 barriers identified in this study, "lack of training opportunities for IL instruction for librarians" and "lack of policy regarding IL instruction in the medical institutions" were the two most significant barriers to IL instruction programmes in medical institutions. These findings suggest future direction for pre- and in-service education of librarians to prepare themselves to provide IL instruction. A clearly stipulated IL policy may be formulated and implemented in all medical institutions. The findings of this study are expected to enable medical librarians to be more aware of the barriers while planning and providing IL instruction in medical institutions.http://journals.pu.edu.pk/journals/index.php/pjiml/article/view/902information literacy instructionbarriersmedical institutionspakistan. |
| spellingShingle | Midrar Ullah Kanwal Ameen Barriers When Advocating or Providing Information Literacy Instruction in Medical Institutions of Pakistan Pakistan Journal of Information Management & Libraries information literacy instruction barriers medical institutions pakistan. |
| title | Barriers When Advocating or Providing Information Literacy Instruction in Medical Institutions of Pakistan |
| title_full | Barriers When Advocating or Providing Information Literacy Instruction in Medical Institutions of Pakistan |
| title_fullStr | Barriers When Advocating or Providing Information Literacy Instruction in Medical Institutions of Pakistan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Barriers When Advocating or Providing Information Literacy Instruction in Medical Institutions of Pakistan |
| title_short | Barriers When Advocating or Providing Information Literacy Instruction in Medical Institutions of Pakistan |
| title_sort | barriers when advocating or providing information literacy instruction in medical institutions of pakistan |
| topic | information literacy instruction barriers medical institutions pakistan. |
| url | http://journals.pu.edu.pk/journals/index.php/pjiml/article/view/902 |
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