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Reconsidering information literacy.
Abstract
The delineated information explosion inevitably prompted moves---via the information literacy concept---to help survive the ensuing problematic information deluge through effective retrieval, evaluation, and efficient use. However, there are insistent calls for conceptual reconsideration because of the emerged negative connotation of "literacy" in this teaching-learning concept.
Introduction
The much-heralded information explosion provided the opportunity for society to consider ways of instituting beneficial survival techniques for effective access, evaluation, and use of the ensuing information deluge. One of the seminal occurrences ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Reconsidering information literacy.