Teaching Information Literacy with the Lerninformationssystem‪.‬

In 2001 scientists of the Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund Landesinstitut (a federal state institute working in the, field of labour research, located in Dortmund, Germany) reported on barriers in using digital scientific information at German universities and other institutes of higher education'. (1) They came to the conclusion that information literacy among German students had to be improved, and suggested several measures to be taken, one of them being that Courses and learning modules for professional use of digital scientific information must be conceived, developed, applied and assessed. Therefore, intra- and interuniversity cooperation of lecturers, libraries and information brokers is absolutely necessary.