Information Literacy: A New Frontier of Learning for Librarians, Educators and Students in the 21st Century

Abstract

This paper discusses information literacy as a new frontier of learning for librarians, educators and students in the 21^st century. It examines the meaning while taking a cursory look at the instructional process. The paper highlights some definitions of information literacy by authors and corporate bodies. The difference between information technology and information literacy was briefly analysed. The challenges of the 21^st century education in the information world were enumerated as it affects the students, teachers and librarians. The paper indicates that librarians have over the course of their work life been conversant with teaching students and faculty on how to get needed information for their research investigations and as such are better suited to teach information literacy. It recommends that as librarians and educators collaborate to promote information literacy, they can help each other, and the learners [students] they serve, to find the best way to bypass vast wastelands.

Keywords: Information Literacy, Librarians, Literacy, Educators, Students and 21^st Century