1. INTRODUCTION
On April 23, 2019, the "World Reading Day", Beijing Institute of Technology successfully held the "National Information Literacy Awareness Day". The theme of a serious activities during the "National Information Literacy Awareness Day" to promote the education of information literacy in higher education institutions and in society. This is an important activity undertaken by Beijing Institute of Technology in the EU Erasmus+ Higher education Capacity building project " Developing Trans-regional information Literacy for lifelong learning and the knowledge economy –DIREKT ".
The objective of the project is to promote the level and quality of information literacy education in higher education institutions and the whole society in China, Russia and Kazakhstan, to develop information literacy curriculum and courses, to establish an online education platform, and to develop an action guide for information Literacy Education.
April 23 is "World Reading Day", Beijing Institute of Technology, together with Northwestern Polytechnic University and Nanjing University of Science and Technology jointly organized the "National Information Literacy Awareness Day" theme activities in Beijing, Xi’an and Nanjing. In the libraries in both Zhongguancun Campus and Liangxiang Campus, exhibition, seminar, and workshop of Information Literacy were organized.
The objective of the National Informational Literacy Awareness Day:
Director of BIT library, Office of Undergraduate education, vice director of Office of International Affairs of BIT, and librarians, academic staff and students from School of Mechanical Engineering attended the opening ceremony of 2nd national information literacy awareness day in BIT.
Dr. Xu Zhang presented the DIREKT project. Prof. Huang, director of Library, made a speech on education of information literacy and library services in BIT library. Then participants had a discussion on the issue of information literacy education in BIT. Topics included avoiding plagiarism, information searching and evaluation, academic writing, services provided by library, curriculum in Engineering majors, etc.
Opening ceremony of National Information Literacy Awareness Day in University Library on Zhongguancun Campus BIT
A special exhibition on information literacy is organized for one week.
Public exhibition on Information Literacy on Liangxiang Campus BIT
Public exhibition on Information Literacy on Liangxiang Campus BIT
Public exhibition on Information Literacy on Liangxiang Campus BIT
A discussion and debate on Information Literacy was organized. Students from the School of Mechanical Engineering participated the seminar to discuss the status of information literacy of college students in China. Means to improve information literacy were discussed.
Discussion and debate on Information Literacy
Discussion and debate on Information Literacy
Discussion and debate on Information Literacy
Scopus Company was invited to held the "SciVal help you open up new horizons of scientific research" theme report.
Workshop - SciVal help you open up new horizons of scientific research
An online database resource exhibition by world-known database companies, Clarivate Analytics, Springer Nature, Elsevier, EBSCO, SAGE, was held during the National Information Awareness Day.
Exhibition of academic online databases
Exhibition of academic online databases
Mr. Padraig Kirby and Brian O'Donnell, from the Limerick Institute of Technology, project coordinator in Ireland, participated in the opening ceremony and student seminars of the project as project observers.
The successful holding of this event has promoted the understanding of information literacy among college students, university teachers and the whole society, and promoted the popularization of information literacy education in China.
National media, China Youth Network, Beijing Headline, reported this event.
T-shirts, project leaflet, pens with project logo, and notebooks were prepared for promotion of all NAD activities.
The second National Information Literacy Awareness Day was successfully held in BIT. With the experiences we had in 2018, the NAD in 2019 is successful in having more impact to students and staff members. There were more students participating the exhibition, public workshops.