Employing various information environments (databases, libraries, internet), and utilizing the structure, tools, and keywords to search for sources that fill your information need.

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Information literacy refers to an individual's ability to identify an information need, then find, access, recover, evaluate, organize, and use the information 
To be information literate, one needs to have critical thinking, comprehension, and abstraction skills. 

Information Literacy 

Instruction librarians teach users information literacy skills to process information efficiently and effectively.

Information Literacy Instruction (ILI) in Libraries

Assessing the value of a source by analyzing the authority, content, credibility, purpose, helpfulness, accuracy, etc. 

Evaluating Information

Finding information

Instruction designed to teach information literacy skills to any given group of information users.

Information Literacy Instruction

- prospect: being able to find information 
- interpret: understand and create new information from the information 
- create new ideas: evolve new points of view

Information Literacy Competencies

- Misinformation              
- Information Avoidance                                                
- Information Overload                             
- Plagiarism


Obstacles to Information Literacy

When it comes to the term illiteracy, the general consensus is to define it as a lack of the ability to read or inability to understand information. Information illiteracy is different from those definitions in that it is referencing areas of knowledge that a person might not be versed in. 

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