Information Literacy Around the World: Advances in Programs and Research

Information literacy is being progressively recognised as a critical issue in education, the workplace and the community. Information literacy around the world brings to fruition a simple idea: to bring together important, contemporary information literacy initiatives. Most of these initiatives began life some time in the past five years. They come from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas. They also come from a variety of contexts: the community, the workplace, universities, schools and continuing education. Some are large well-funded programs; others are initiatives that have had little monetary input. Some are completed research projects, while others are essentially visions for continuing to expand the information literacy research territory. All of them are 'models' which, we believe, are likely to inspire the information literacy community as it moves into the twenty-first century