Embedding digital and research-literacy support program into postgraduate studies curriculum: A proposed program for sub-Saharan African postgraduate schools
ISSN: 0024-2535
Article publication date: 27 October 2017
Issue publication date: 20 November 2017
Abstract
Purpose
This viewpoint paper aims to propose a digital and research literacy support program for postgraduate schools in sub-Saharan Africa institutions.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper reviewed literature on postgraduate students’ skills and postgraduate information literacy programs and proposed one for postgraduate schools in sub-Saharan Africa institutions.
Findings
Information literacy programs are not implemented at the postgraduate level in sub-Saharan Africa possibly because of lack of contents for these programs.
Research limitations/implications
The course is only a proposed course that can be embedded into the postgraduate curriculum in sub-Saharan African universities. The effectiveness of the course has not been evaluated in this study.
Originality/value
The proposed information literacy program focused on digital and research literacy, which is still relatively new in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the organizers of the Carnegie CPD program for librarians in sub-Saharan Africa.
Citation
Besseah, B., Achiro, D., Mhando, J. and Salau, S.A. (2017), "Embedding digital and research-literacy support program into postgraduate studies curriculum: A proposed program for sub-Saharan African postgraduate schools", Library Review, Vol. 66 No. 8/9, pp. 586-594. https://doi.org/10.1108/LR-02-2017-0012
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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