"the ability to effectively identify, access, evaluate and make use of information in its various formats, and to choose the appropriate medium for communication. It also encompasses knowledge and attitudes related to ethical and social issues surrounding information and information technology"
(California Academic and Research Libraries Task Force, 1997)
Objecttive Facts
experience of Information literacy •As with teaching and learning generally, information literacy may be experienced in a variety of ways.
•This has implications for how different people experience the information literacy agenda and how they approach information literacy in curriculum.
FOR REFLECTION
•How do you use information in your everyday life and work?•Remember the details of a time when you used information effectively
•Think about your picture of an effective information user ( or information literate person)
•Think about your experience of being ( or trying to be) an information literate person –what do you do? Easily? What do you struggle with?
•Different people and stakeholder groups see or experience information literacy differently
•How might this influence information literacy politics, curriculum design, relationships between teachers, librarians and students, and the outworkingsof curriculum in classrooms
The Seven Faces of Information Literacy
First Face : The IT ExperienceInformation
•IT used for information awareness
•IT helps users stay informed/communicate
•a social experience –not individual•dependent on expertise within a group
Second Face : The Info Sources Experience
•bibliographic
•human
•organisational
•assistance of intermediaries emphasised
•Personal skills also valued
Third Face : The Info Process Experience
•linked to problem-solving, decision-making
•requires personal heuristics
•a ‘creative art’Information
Fourth Face : The Info-Control
•recognising relevant information
•managing that information
•making connections between information, projects, people
•interconnectedness between information and parts of projectsInformation
Fifth Face : The Knowledge Construction Experience
•emphasis on learning
•Developing a personal perspective with knowledge gained
•dependent on critical thinkingInformation
Sixth Face : The Knowledge Extension Experience
•personal knowledge + experience + creative insight/intuition
•mysterious experience
•develops new knowledge/approaches to tasks/novel solutionsInformation
Seventh Face : The Wisdom Experience
•personal quality
•values and ethics combined with knowledge
•information used for the benefit of othersInformation
Subjective Opinions
The Competency Standards stress that information literacy "forms the basis for lifelong learning. ... It enables users to master content and extend their investigations, become more self-directed, ... assume greater control over their learning... [and] develop a metacognitive approach to learning, making them conscious of the explicit actions required for gathering, analyzing, and using information." Succinctly stated, this is the purpose of information literacy instruction. The IS Objectives can be used as a guide for the efforts of librarians who promote the Competency Standards at their institutions.
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