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The purpose of this study is to develop an information literacy curriculum in nursing practices that incorporates evidence-based nursing and to evaluate its learning effects. During the planning phase, the curriculum was designed on the basis of the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Nursing issued by Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and used semi-structured interviews to explore the information needs of clinical nurses. In terms of learning outcomes assessment, a quasi-experimental and pretest-posttest design was adopted. The results showed that the information needs of nurses were to resolve clinical problems in patient care and to write progress reports. Second, ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Nursing was used to design the five modules for the proposed evidence-based information literacy course. The information literacy competencies of the Experimental Group in posttest evaluation were significantly improved compared with the Control Group (p<.05). Finally, both the Experimental and Control Groups differed significantly in information literacy competencies, knowledge levels of evidence-based nursing practices, and confidence levels in answering questions. Three suggestions were proposed for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research is the important process of knowledge exploration. Domain knowledge development can be improved by using research design and proper statistical methods meticulously as well as clearly and systematically displaying research results. In order to find out the evolving trend of Library and Information Science, its research design and statistical method is a topic worth exploring. By applying bibliometric and content analysis, this study investigates the 1,540 research papers published in the Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences (JoEMLS) in the last 40 years. According to its history and mission statement, the researchers separate time span from 1970 to 2010 into four period, exploring the features of those published papers, including the type of articles, article languages, topics, structures, research designs and statistical methods. The results show as follow. During period 1, the type of articles are diversities. In addition, Chinese papers are dominate. Moreover, the top 3 categories of research papers are the study of "Library and Information Science"(66%), follows by the "Education"(15%). As for the paper structure, there are 2.73% papers applying ILMRAD and only 8 papers of them applying IMRAD. The most commonly adopted research design is Survey Method, among them, the study of "Library and Information Science" used more often (46.63%). As to the most commonly used statistical method is Descriptive Statistics (60.11%), secondly the T-Test (9.27%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Faculty-librarian partnership in information literacy (IL) instruction through subject course has been advocated in the field of library and information science (US) over the years. In order to understand faculty attitudes toward collaboration with librarians to integrate IL into their curriculum, a survey was conducted at Feng Chia University. Findings show positive attitudes from the investigated faculty while differences were observed among different age groups. Meanwhile, different attitudes were revealed between teaching higher order thinking skills and lower order thinking skills. Librarian Domain Knowledge, Librarian Professionalism, Curriculum Strategies, and Student Learning were identified as factorial dimensions influencing faculty-librarian collaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]