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Information practices and learning strategies, i.e. knowledge management, are gaining
acceptance in the field of Education. Knowledge management can be described as a set of
practices that help to improve the use and sharing of data and information in decision-making.
This paradigm shift, at a national scale, was driven by the Bologna Declaration by assuming
that students play an active and central role in their training. Projects like "Tuning Educational
Structures īn Europeā and āDefīnītīon and Selectīon of Competencīesā mentīons īnformatīon
literacy skills (ILS) as a strategy for the individual to thrive in the 21st century. This requires a
critical analysis on the nature of the information itself and of the informational skills that are
needed as a basis for decision-making, issuing opinions and execution of duly informed and
reasoned actions.
This short-paper shows the relationship between the full time faculty of the School of
Management and Industrial Studies (ESEIG) of Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP) and
ESEIG Ģs lībrarīan. We assess, by a questīonnaīre applīed to both faculty and ESEIGs Ģ
librarian, how they face collaboration among them in order to achieve a good performance in
terms of information literacy of that student community. This study shows how these actors
perceive their roles within the information literacy education in this context.
We conclude that there is growing concern on the part of faculty to promote students acquisition
of information literacy skills, but that collaboration with the librarian did not reach the
parameters considered yet satisfactory by the information literacy movement.
Finally, action proposals are presented to that community in order to facilitate dialogue and
collaboration between those actors, in order to promote the acquisition of ILS by the students.
Some proposals are presented in order to enhance and improve the relationship between them,
and thus improve ILS that students acquire.
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Collaboration Higher Education Information Literacy skills Information Society Knowledge Management