Open AccessNavigating information literacy: your information society survival toolkit
Author(s) -
Peter G. Underwood
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
south african journal of libraries and information science/south african journal of library and information science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2304-8263
pISSN - 0256-8861
DOI - 10.7553/75-2-101
Subject(s) - scholarship , information literacy , indigenous , globalization , literacy , scholarly communication , library science , sociology , information management , digital library , knowledge management , political science , computer science , publishing , pedagogy , ecology , law , biology , art , literature , poetry
The first edition of this work was published in 2006 under the title Navigating information literacy. The change of title and the short gap between editions mark a significant development in the field: from becoming a phenomenon to be explored, information literacy has become an essential component of the life skills we should acquire and strive to keep up-to-date. That said, the temptation for the writer or lecturer is to concentrate on the technology and its myriad wonders at the expense of encouraging the development of deeper understanding. Fortunately, the authors (all from the Department of Information Science of the University of Pretoria) have avoided this danger and have produced a text that will explain and inform whilst developing a foundation of principles. In this way, they have provided some “future proofing”: having acquired and put into practice the concepts in this book, the reader will be able to understand the significance of newer technologies, able to relate them to what has already been learned and understand how the newer technologies can be applied