A European perspective of IL

I have spent the past two days collating my papers and running some preliminary literature searches. If these early literature searches are any indication, the IL literature base is heavily biased towards IL skills training within the schools (K-12) and academic settings (HE), something I suspected.

This view has been further compounded by my reading the literature review undertaken by Sirje Virkus. The review is a great introduction to the IL literature from a European perspective. The review is now nearly four years old, however, still very useful. The paper is broadly divided into several sections, these being:

1. The concept of information literacy used an discussed by European authors

2. Information literacy in the school and he sectors

3. Organizations and institutions concerned with information literacy in Europe

4. Institutions and organizations at regional and national level

5. Participation in literacy movement at global level

6. Some examples of research on information literacy

7. Conclusions

This paper is very easy to read, and should be the starting point for anyone wanting a overview of subject from European perspective.

Virkus, S. (2003) Information literacy in Europe: a literature review. Information Research 8 (4). Available at: http://InformationR.net/ir/8-4/paper159.html.