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Building infrastructures for university-community knowledge exchange : The Role of Information Professionals and Literacy Educators : Panel De Forest, Heather; Freund, Luanne; McCauley, Aleha; O'Brien, Heather, 1977-; Smythe, Suzanne

Abstract

This panel argues that information professionals and literacy educators play an important bridging role between universities and community groups and stakeholders. We describe the context of university-community knowledge exchange, which is increasingly expected, but remains under-supported and under-theorised, and consider new opportunities that exist to support and build capacity in researchers and communities to co-create, share, and use information. We focus on the training and professional development needed to position information professionals and literacy educators as knowledge brokers, and innovative projects that demonstrate their value and potential in this role.

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Building infrastructures for university-community knowledge exchange : The Role of Information Professionals and Literacy Educators : Panel
Creator
De Forest, Heather; Freund, Luanne; McCauley, Aleha; O'Brien, Heather, 1977-; Smythe, Suzanne
Contributor
Canadian Association for Information Science. Conference (2019 : Vancouver, British Columbia)
Date Issued
2019-06
Description
This panel argues that information professionals and literacy educators play an important bridging role between universities and community groups and stakeholders. We describe the context of university-community knowledge exchange, which is increasingly expected, but remains under-supported and under-theorised, and consider new opportunities that exist to support and build capacity in researchers and communities to co-create, share, and use information. We focus on the training and professional development needed to position information professionals and literacy educators as knowledge brokers, and innovative projects that demonstrate their value and potential in this role.
Genre
Conference Paper
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2023-10-11
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0437103
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86112
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; Library, UBC; Non UBC; Information, School of
Citation
DeForest, H., Freund, L., McCauley, A., O’Brien, H. & Smythe, S. (2019, June). Building infrastructures for university-community knowledge exchange: The role of information professionals & literacy educators. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science. University of British Columbia: Vancouver.
Publisher DOI
10.29173/cais1073
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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