Information Literacy: The Key Competency for the 21st Century.
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| contents | Information Literacy: The Key Competency for the 21st Century. Bundy, Alan Academic Libraries Change Agents Change Strategies Educational Change Educational Development Foreign Countries Futures (of Society) Government Role Higher Education Information Literacy Information Skills Library Role Lifelong Learning Role of Education This paper examines Australian progress in addressing the implications of two certainties about the 21st century--change will be a constant, and it will be a century of data and information abundance. The focus is on the higher education sector, consisting of 36 public and two private universities. Topics discussed include: (1) characteristics of Australian higher education; (2) challenges for libraries; (3) Information Fatigue Syndrome, i.e., ill health as a result of information overload; (4) education at a crossroads--changes in the role of education because of the information explosion; (5) lifelong learning; (6) changing the educational paradigm, including development of information skills and information literacy as a goal of higher education; (7) the need for research on information literacy; (8) information literacy as the "zeitgeist" of the times, i.e., an idea whose time has come; (9) the marketing of information literacy; (10) a strategic response to ensure that, by 2000, every educator, educational administrator, and librarian in Australia has heard of information literacy; (11) Australian information literacy conferences; (12) summaries of two conference papers on information literacy; (13) information literacy and library competencies; (14) highlights of two Australian government reports on information literacy; and (15) response of Australian university libraries to information literacy and their potential role as educational change agents. (Contains 26 references.) (MES) |
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| spellingShingle | Information Literacy: The Key Competency for the 21st Century. Bundy, Alan Academic Libraries Change Agents Change Strategies Educational Change Educational Development Foreign Countries Futures (of Society) Government Role Higher Education Information Literacy Information Skills Library Role Lifelong Learning Role of Education Information Literacy: The Key Competency for the 21st Century. Bundy, Alan Academic Libraries Change Agents Change Strategies Educational Change Educational Development Foreign Countries Futures (of Society) Government Role Higher Education Information Literacy Information Skills Library Role Lifelong Learning Role of Education This paper examines Australian progress in addressing the implications of two certainties about the 21st century--change will be a constant, and it will be a century of data and information abundance. The focus is on the higher education sector, consisting of 36 public and two private universities. Topics discussed include: (1) characteristics of Australian higher education; (2) challenges for libraries; (3) Information Fatigue Syndrome, i.e., ill health as a result of information overload; (4) education at a crossroads--changes in the role of education because of the information explosion; (5) lifelong learning; (6) changing the educational paradigm, including development of information skills and information literacy as a goal of higher education; (7) the need for research on information literacy; (8) information literacy as the "zeitgeist" of the times, i.e., an idea whose time has come; (9) the marketing of information literacy; (10) a strategic response to ensure that, by 2000, every educator, educational administrator, and librarian in Australia has heard of information literacy; (11) Australian information literacy conferences; (12) summaries of two conference papers on information literacy; (13) information literacy and library competencies; (14) highlights of two Australian government reports on information literacy; and (15) response of Australian university libraries to information literacy and their potential role as educational change agents. (Contains 26 references.) (MES) |
| title | Information Literacy: The Key Competency for the 21st Century. |
| topic | Academic Libraries Change Agents Change Strategies Educational Change Educational Development Foreign Countries Futures (of Society) Government Role Higher Education Information Literacy Information Skills Library Role Lifelong Learning Role of Education |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED434662 |