Information behavior describes the way humans interact with information. There is an emphasis on how people seek, retrieve and utilize information.

Information Behavior

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 

Any services that provide information, knowledge, or data.

Information Services

When someone is informed, what they know is changed. 

In this way, "information" is the act of informing, communicating knowledge, to someone, or the act of receiving knowledge. 

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There are three distinguished uses of the term:

1. Information-as-thing

2. Information-as-process

3. Information-as-knowledge

The Three Forms of Information

Buckland, Michael K. "Information as Thing." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 42.5 (1991): 351-60. https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/thing.html

Information as a Thing

Refers to data, documents, and content that is tangible and educational. 

Information as a thing

Information as a Process

"Information" as knowledge is the fact, subject, or event that an individual consumes and/or communicates

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