What is The Russian School Library Association? How is Personal Information Culture understood in Russia?

How does it differ from Information Literacy? How is Civic Literacy understood in Russia? Why do we need a community of scholars and practitioners? How does The Russian School Library Association implement the

notions of civil society and collaborate with the Parliament of Russia and public bodies and organizations to protect the interests of school librarians and initiate changes in the professional community and society?

What barriers do we have? What prospects do we see?

Established in 2004

RSLA is a voluntary, self-managed, non-profit organization which unites Russia’s school libraries and 40,000 school librarians who collaborate together with 1 million teachers and 12 million students

RSLA’s main lines of activity : Library policy and legislation for school libraries Social protection and training of school librarians Protection of school library users International, scientific, cultural and practical education; publishing, printing and advertising.

RSLA’s information portal: http://www.rusla.ru, it publishes Shkolnaya Biblioteka (School Library), Sem'ja i shkola (Family and School), and Chitajka (Let’s Read) journals.

Information literacy is a term widely used in the English-speaking countries; its accurate definition is given in the IFLA and UNESCO documents.

Personal Information Culture is a term similar but not identical to Information Literacy. It is used in some non-English-speaking countries like Russia, France, Hungary, etc.

Civic literacy is a polysemic term and may have different meanings in various countries.

Personal information Culture is a component of general culture of a human being; it is the sum total of information outlook and the system of knowledge

and skills that ensure independent goal-oriented activity along with the optimum satisfaction of

information requirements by using both traditional and new information technologies.

It is the most important factor of successful professional activity and personal social protection

in the information society.

Информационная грамотностьИнформационное мировоззрение

Personal Information Personal Information Culture Culture

Personal CulturePersonal Culture

CultureCulture

- - Information outlook Information outlook

- - MotivationMotivation

Schools: “Informatics and Fundamentals of ICT” as a compulsory course

School libraries: Exhibitions Reference and publication reviews Contests and quizzes Discussions Excursions Library lessons The Course “Fundamentals of Personal Information Culture”

1. IFLA-2012 Satellite Conference “Information for Civic Literacy” organized by Information Literacy Section and the IFLA Africa Section through its Special Interest Group “Access to Information Network – Africa” (8-10 August 2012, Riga)

2. Round Table “Information and Civic Literacy of Society” of IFLA Forum, International Conference, the Crimea- 2013 (Sudak, Ukraine, 8-16 June, 2013)

1. Citizen is a country’s resident who enjoys all the rights provided by the laws of this country and fulfills all the duties that are established by the laws of this country; a citizen of a country.

2. Citizen is a person who serves his home country and its people; a person who cares about public well-being and is a conscientious member of the society and is ready to subordinate one’s own interests to the public good.

The Post-Soviet Russia: a gap between a new democratic legislation and law obedience of population. The development of legal consciousness and legal culture has become a priority of the governmental policy.

Fundamentals of the Governmental Policy of the Russian Federation in the Field of Developing Legal Literacy and Citizens’ legal consciousness (approved by the RF President 04 May 2011) serves as a basis of civic education development.

The term “Civic literacy” Training Courses “The Legal Basics” and “The Law”

The Post-Soviet

period

The term “Legal literacy” Training Course “Fundamentals of the Soviet State and Law”

The Soviet period

SCHOOLS: A compulsory course for elementary school students (7-10 years old) “Environment

(man, nature, and society)” A compulsory course for secondary school students (11-16 years old) “Social

Science” An optional course “Citizenship”

SCHOOL LIBRARIES:Traditional events: Book exhibitions (traditional/electronic) Reference and literature reviews Contests, discussions, excursions Interactive methods: Discussions, brainstorming, presentations Business and role games Technologies of social projecting, etc. Involving the children and teenagers into collective work holding the library events

(shows, literature parties and other civic events)

Higher-level concepts and terms Civic education Civil legal education Civil legal clarification Civic pedagogy Legal pedagogy Civil society Education in the field of human rights Legal training

Associated concepts and terms Citizen Human rights Legal protection (unprotected) Legal information Judicial information Sources of legal information Legal consciousness Legal competence Political competence

Terms derived from the word “Literacy”

Civic literacy Legal literacy Political literacy Judicial literacy Legal and socio-political literacy Legal functional literacy Social and civic literacy Electoral literacy Civic and legal literacy Environmental and legal literacy

Terms derived from the word “Culture” Civic culture Legal culture Political culture Judicial culture Human rights culture Moral culture Electoral culture

Law (knowledge of the constitution and the fundamental laws, awareness of the civic duty and responsibilities of a citizen)

Policy (knowledge of the democratic foundations of civil society, knowledge of individual rights and freedoms)

Patriotism (love for and readiness to defend one’s own homeland, conscientious involvement in its history, responsibility for the country’s destiny)

Moral values (obedience to the values of public good, humanity, justice, truth, conscience, honor, dignity, tolerance, respect for human rights, charity, etc.).

LawPolicy

Moral valuesPatriotism

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Media and information literacy (MIL) is a basic human right in a digital world and promotes social inclusion of all nations.

Media and information literacy enhances the capacity of people to enjoy their fundamental human rights, in particular as expressed in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.’

Understand the role and functions of media in democratic societies

Engage with media for self-expression and democratic participation

Understand the conditions under which media can fulfill their functions

Evaluate critically the media content in the light of media functions

Review the skills (including ICT skills) needed to produce user-generated content

Define and articulate information needs

Locate and access information Assess information Organize information Make ethical use of information Communicate information Use ICT skills for information

processing

A multi-component structure of the concepts of civic literacy and personal information culture requires carrying a variety of studies in such disciplines as law, politics, ethics, information society, Internet, information technology, etc.

Many different theoretical approaches and points of view exist on the Information for Civic Literacy concept.

Lack of pedagogical solutions for training students and lack of textbooks, manuals, integrating knowledge and skills on civic and information literacy.

RSLA lines of activity: Engages scientists to work out a strategy for the development of school

libraries and training school librarians in Russia Invites scientists from Russian universities to work at the annual forums

of school librarians of Russia Implements joint publishing projects for school libraries

RSLA contacts: Lomonosov Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University Universities of Culture and Arts in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar,

Kemerovo, Academies of Culture and Arts in Chelyabinsk and Samara. Institute of Applied Informatics of Russian Academy of Sciences "Kurchatov Institute" National Research Centre, Department of Nano-,

Bio-, Info- and Cognitive Technologies.

1. Manifesto of School Libraries in the Russian Federation (2007)

2. Code of Ethics of School Librarians of the Russian Federation (2007)

3. The Concept of Library Development in Educational Institutions of the Russian Federation for the Period up to 2015

4. Educational and methodological materials for training and professional development of school librarians and teacher-librarians as representatives of a new profession in school libraries: qualifications of the teacher-librarian teacher-librarian training curricula at the universities of

culture and arts test materials for certification of school librarians applying

for the teacher-librarian position

1. Science to Russia’s School Libraries Section. Meeting with the researchers.

2. Lectures, workshops, consultations, trainings, round tables on and discussions of the most important problems of school libraries.

3. School Library as a Cognitive Resource for Education Development: A Project.

Goal: Creation of a new model of Russia’s school library

Motto: A smart library for every Russia’s school!

Project participants: Experts in the field of cognitive technologies, teachers, researchers in the field of librarianship.

Project leader: T.V. Chernigovskaya, Dr. of Philological Sciences, Dr. of Biological Sciences, Prof. of St. Petersburg State University, coordinator of cognitive technologies research at "Kurchatov Institute" National Research Centre, Member of the Presidential Council for Science and Education.

2007 – School Library as a Center of Personal Information Culture 2009 – Training course “Fundamentals of Personal Information Culture at School

Library: The Conceptual Framework and Practice of Teaching” 2010 – Basic Didactics of Personal Information Culture at School Library 2011 – Developing Personal Information Culture at School Library as Part of the

Teacher-Librarian’s Professional Activity: From Popularization and Spontaneity to Systematic and Objective Teaching

2012 – Methodological Basis of Teaching Information Culture at School

The Russian Federation Government

The Russian Federation Parliament (State Duma)

The Plenipotentiary Representatives of the RF President in the Federal Districts

Public associations

Children and youth movements

Managers of civic and patriotic education programs for children and youth

“…Today, I would also like to dwell upon school librarians. They do a very important, useful, and necessary job. They ... should help students to navigate in the vast world of information to broaden educational horizons. Unfortunately, their salaries are at least three times less than that of school teachers. Unlike school teachers, they don’t have the right to social benefits. I would like to inform you that we have decided to introduce a new position called “teacher-librarian”. ... It will be an important step in raising the profile of school libraries…”

Statement of the RF Prime Minister V.V. Putin at the 6th Congress of the All-Russian

Pedagogical Assembly (May 31, 2011)

2009 – The parliamentary hearings “Legislative Support of Libraries in Educational Institutions in the Field of Intellectual and Moral Education of Children.” Discussion of the “Concept of Library Development in the Educational Institutions of the Russian Federation up to 2015.”

2010 – The Federal Law “On Protection of Children from Information Which May Harm their Health and Development.”

Content: The National Strategy of Action for Children in

2012-2017. Approved by the Presidential Decree No. 761 of June 01, 2012.

Legislative acts on implementing the civic rights of children’s organizations to unite and develop.

Normative legal acts of the Russian Federation on the children's rights to unite and measures aimed to support the children's movement.

Information on the children's movement in the Federal Districts of the Russian Federation, the enabling mechanisms for children's associations, and the best practices.

The parliamentary hearings “Children’s Movement in Russia and Prospects of its Development (2012)”

Organizational: Lacking governmental programs for the development of personal information culture and civic literacy in Russia.

Research: The problem of bringing together information specialists and librarians, lawyers, and educators for studying the potential and mechanisms of the information and civic literacy integration.

Pedagogical: – The problem of finding the best ways of teaching information and civic literacy; school librarians lack the knowledge and skills that are required to teach information and civic education.

Venue: Moscow, Russia

Theme: School library as a cognitive resource for the development of education.

Motto: School library in the knowledge society: Application of cognitive technologies and development of a creative personality.

Post Address: Russia, 109012, Moscow, 1st Kozhevnichesky Pereulok, 6, building 1, room 105А Phone, fax: 8 (495) 280-18-51

http://www.rusla.ruE-mail: rusla@rusla.ru