Author

Horton, Forest Woody

Year

2007

Publisher

UNESCO

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Abstract

Increasingly, the concept of information literacy is considered as crucially important to enable people to deal with the challenge of making good use of information and communication technology. This non-technical overview explains what information literacy means. Designed for senior and middle level public and private sector executives, in government ministries, private enterprises, academic institutions, and not-for-profit organizations, it describes how to find, retrieve, organize, evaluate and effectively use information. This publication has been designed as a ready reference for consulting from time to time by busy officials and executives having to cope every day with the complex and daunting challenges being faced by all enterprises and institutions, public and private, as they make the transition to knowledge societies at the beginning of the 21st century.

Keywords

information literacy, technological literacy, knowledge society