About Info. Lit. Skills
The purpose of this Website is to explore the concepts of Information Literacy and Info. Lit. Skills in particular and to present the useful resources that there are available to librarians, media specialists, teachers, students and researchers.
First of all, we must ask ‘what is Information Literacy’? You know what it means…Information Literacy is discerning what Websites are reliable and which are not. True, that IS part of Information Literacy BUT the roots of it go back much earlier than what we know as the computer. According to Google Timeline the concept of Information Literacy goes back to the 1800’s.
The University of Idaho provides valuable information on it’s ‘Information Literacy Portal‘ and offers the following definition:
‘Information Literacy is the ability to identify what information is needed, understand how the information is organized, identify the best sources of information for a given need, locate those sources, evaluate the sources critically, and share that information. It is the knowledge of commonly used research techniques.’
What would you add to the definition presented here?
