Social Project of Media and Information Literacy Knowledge Improvement Among Academic and School Librarians in Kazakhstan

This paper reports the results of the “SauattyKeleshek” social project aimed to improve Media and Information Literacy (MIL) knowledge, skills, and abilities among academic and school librarians in Kazakhstan. The project included educational trainings developed and introduced to the target group consisting of 391 participants, both online and onsite. The objectives of this research paper are to identify the MIL competencies participants posses and ways to improve their MIL knowledge. In this study, researchers will answer the following questions: what are the information needs of the target audience; how does MIL training improve the MIL knowledge of participants; how does an MIL training program content respond to the information needs of the learners? Specifically, researchers applied a qualitative research method by analysing the results of primary data from an online survey conducted before the training, and the MIL training program was developed on the basis of the preliminary survey analysis.