Explaining the Relationship between Information Literacy and Intellectual Capital

Abstract

The study responds to two key questions: Which one of the information literacy components has a greater impact on intellectual capital and its components?  And How are the quantity and quality of effectiveness?This study is based on the relationship between information literacy and intellectual capital among the staff of the Department of Education in Zanjan  province. According to objective, result and methodology, this study can be considered descriptive - explanatory, applied and the surveying (field work), respectively. The study population included 245 employees working in the general office of Department of Education in Zanjan that the sample size was determined as 152 subjects by simple random sampling method. The data were collected through a researcher-made questionnaire. The research hypotheses were tested by using structural equation modeling method, dispersion indices, Pearson test and Kolmogorov–Smirnov test and by Lisrel and SPSS applications. The results showed that only some components of information literacy can improve intellectual capital. Among the ten components, five components of the information literacy have significant impact on intellectual capital. Finally, it was suggested due to increasing volume of information within the Department of Education in Zanjan, providing useful programs to empower people in proper understanding of information sources, access to information and purposeful use of them in such organizations can increase information literacy, and thereby, would improve intellectual capital.

Keywords: Concept of literacy, Information literacy and its components, Value of information literacy, Information literacy skills, Intellectual capital and its components