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The Mandates for Information Literacy
Unless you are a librarian, you may only be peripherally familiar with Information Literacy. This is fine, because you probably already know and teach many aspects of it. Information Literacy is the way librarians systematize the kinds of knowledge and skills necessary to (among other things)
- search for information
- evaluate and select information to use
- understand the context in which information is created and communicated and used.
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Screenshot from Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education Please click to enlarge, and read.
Also read the definition of Information Literacy from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and the Research Information Network (RIN):
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Screenshot from What Is Information Literacy?. Please click to enlarge, and read.
