• The International Alliance for Information Literacy (IAIL). United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Media and Information...
  • Paul Zurkowski first defined information literacy in (1974) as ‘people trained in the application of information sources to their work can be called literates.’
  • The study of information literacy has developed separately from the study of media literacy, but the two traditions are beginning to converge.
  • Information Literacy refers to a cluster of competencies associated with how people consume, evaluate, produce, use, and archive information.
  • Media Literacy vs. Technology Literacy vs. Information Literacy. Media literacy can be defined as the ability to access, evaluate, analyze, or create media in...
  • PDF | On Jan 1, 2005, Sirje Virkus and others published Information Literacy and Learning | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate.
  • IFAP is promoting actions aimed at raising awareness of the importance of information literacy and supporting projects that build the literacy skills of users.
  • The Information Literacy Value Rubric (AACU 2016) is used by faculty and librarians to make sure that Information literacy objectives are identified, mapped...
  • For more information, visit the Teaching Information Literacy page. Benefits for Students. Improve research skills, critical thinking, and authorship.
  • To put it simply, information literacy is a set of abilities that help students to locate, evaluate and cite various sources of information in an effective manner.