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

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

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. 

Information Illiteracy

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. 

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- Media Literacy
- Information Literacy
- Digital Literacy
- Financial Literacy
- Health Literacy 
- Civic Literacy
- Visual Literacy
 - Geo-literacy

Types of Literacy

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. 

Information as a Process

- Information literacy
- Literacy
- Instructional design
- Academic community
- Informational advocacy


Topics in Teacher Librarianship

Information Literacy. (2019, May 28). Retrieved January 25, 2021, from https://literacy.ala.org/information-literacy/

Information Literacy

Landøy, Ane & Popa, Daniela & Repanovici, Angela. (2020). Basic Concepts in Information Literacy. 10.1007/978-3-030-34258-6_3. 

Basic Concepts Information Literacy 

Information Literacy 

The ability to access, evaluate, and use digital information, tools, and systems.

Digital Literacy

The ability to manage one's health and to properly make informed health care decisions about one's body and mind.

Health Literacy 

The ability to manage one's finances and make responsible choices involving money and wealth.

Financial Literacy

The ability to evaluate and access information via mass media. 

Media Literacy

Visual literacy encompasses the knowledge and skills required to locate, understand, assess, use, and construct visual media.  Visual literacy skills include analyzing aspects of a visual work’s context, culture, ethics, aesthetics, ideas, concepts, expression, and technical properties.

Visual Literacy

Civic literacy encompasses the knowledge and skills required to understand the functions and processes of government; keep informed on civic issues; understand and exercise the rights and obligations of citizenship; understand the local, state, national, and global impact of decisions; and successfully and equitably engage with a diverse society.

Civic Literacy

The broad set of geography-based knowledge that allow learners to understand the world and its interconnections, as well as make sound decisions personally and professionally.

Geo-literacy

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

Information Behavior

Any services that provide information, knowledge, or data.

Information Services

A coalition of students, teachers, and teacher librarians who work toward the goal of creating an informational and effective academic environment.

Academic Community

The promotion of information literacy through public campaigns to make information more accessible or easier for the public to understand

Informational Advocacy

Method of creating informational content for school students that can be adapted and used in a variety of educational environments and mediums. Requires the utilization of learning theory, technical skills, and communcation/collaboration.

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