A Digital Literacy : A Professional Academic Librarian Competency
Keywords:
Academic librarian, Competencies, Bibliographic Management Tools, Online Learning Systems, Evaluating Information Reliability, Plagiarism Checker Tools, Digital Information LiteracyAbstract
This article is intended to present the academic librarian competency, especially, the competency in managing bibliographies, citations and references; in online learning systems, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs); in plagiarism checker tools or how to evaluate information reliability and most important, the promoting digital information literacy competency which should be the basic skills for the academic librarians.
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