The Chronicle of Higher Education

Information Literacy Makes All the Wrong Assumptions

By STANLEY WILDER

Academic librarians were quick to react to the threat posed by Internet competition. In 1989, half a dozen years before the first official release of Netscape, they recognized the explosion in networked information and proposed "information literacy," a reinvention of the educational function of the academic library. The premise of information...

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