Develop and Deliver Essential Information Literacy Programs

Assessment of library instruction to develop student information literacy skills.

Information Literacy: Essential Skills for the Information Age

Information literacy (IL) is the set of skills and knowledge that allows us to find, evaluate, and use the information we need, as well as to filter out the information we don’t need. IL skills are the necessary tools that help us successfully navigate the present and future landscape of information. Information and technology affects every person in every possible setting—work, education, recr...

Information literacy: Essential skills for the information age

This second edition of Information Literacy: Essential Skills for the Information Age remains true to the first edition (published in 1998). The main changes involved the updating of educational standards discussed in the text, as well as the updating of the term history. Overall, this book serves as a detailed definition of the concept of information literacy and focuses heavily on presenting ...

Teaching Information literacy Skills for Training Programs to Higher Education with Emphasis on urban studies

This study aims to determine the need for teaching information literacy skills in the curriculum of higher education. From MA and doctoral students in urban studies, 380 samples were selected using stratified random sampling. In the process of gathering data translated Information Literacy Competency Standard Questionnaire for Higher Education by the American Library Association in 2000 appro...

Programs of Teaching Information Literacy in Croatian School Libraries

This paper talks about the beginnings, development and currently used models of teaching information literacy in school libraries. The foundations of information literacy in Croatia have been set in early eighties of the 20 century by the general transformation of classic school libraries into multimedia centers. The program orientation of activities was focused on, in those days, innovative fo...