Monday, September 1, 2008

Information Literacy and Information Technology Literacy

My first thought after reading this article was disbelief that it was written 10 years ago...I thought that much, if not all, of what Lynch had to say about Info. literacy and Info.Tech. literacy directly relates to what libraries and librarians face today. Knowing how to "retrieve" information in a digital age is not enough. We must also know what the technology has to offer, how it will support and enhance the information we find. Lynch's statement about technology literacy "and I believe it is a mistake to scope this too narrowly to information technology (i.e. computers); it needs to encompass a rather broad view of the technology infastructures that support our society, including computing, telecommunications, broadcasting, publishing..." means, to me, that there are a lot of information sources available and we need to be knowledgable about not only what they are but how they work. Slightly daunting...

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