INFORMATION

LITERACY
?
 INFORMATION LITERATE
• A person must be able to recognize
when information is needed and
have the ability to locate, evaluate,
and use effectively the needed
information.
-------American Library Association
Presidential Committee on Information
Literacy, Final Report, 1989, p.1.
Information Literate people are those
who have learned how to learn.
They know how find information,
and how to use information in such
a way that others can learn from
them. They are people prepared for
lifelong learning, because they can
always find the information needed
for any task or decision at hand.
--------American Library Association Presidential
Committee on Information Literacy, 1989.p.1.
 Information Literacy and
Student Learning
To become effective information users,
students must have frequent
opportunities to handle all kinds of
information. Locating, interpreting,
analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating, and
communicating information should
become a part of every subject across
the curriculum.
------- “Information Literacy”, 1995,pp.20-23
 How are we going to teach
Information Literacy Skills to our
Students?
• Kuhlthau’s research into the information-
seeking behavior of students points directly
to her philosophy about INFORMATION
LITERACY – That INFORMATION
LITERACY is not a discrete set of skills but
rather a WAY OF LEARNING (1993).

“LEARNING HOW TO LEARN”

 How we are going to teach
Information Literacy Skills to our
Students?
• Eisenberg & Berkowitz’s (1988) BIG 6
skills for information problems solving
model – BIG 6 give students a systematic
framework for solving information
problems, and can be used with students
of ALL LEVERS.

“RESEARCH PROCESS”
 How we are going to teach
Information Literacy Skills to our
Students?
• ALASL and AECT (1996)
Information Literacy Skills MUST be integrated with the
CURRICULUM.
. Kuhlthau’s work pointed the way to the integration of
information literacy with curriculum, and predict current
development of the concept of the information literacy
where the LIBRARY MEDIA PROGRAM is the starting
platform.

“RESEARCH PROJECT”