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Information literacy

Here are entered works on the ability to recognize when information is needed and to locate, evaluate, and use the required information effectively.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Information science

• Information literacy -- Periodicals
• Information literacy -- Research
• Information literacy -- Study and teaching
• Information literacy -- Study and teaching (Higher)
• Electronic information resource literacy
• Internet literacy
• Media literacy

• Literacy, Information

• Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy: The Crisis of Information (London and New York: Routledge, c2022), by Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin (PDF files with commentary at Taylor and Francis)
• Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms: Student Experiences With News and Information and the Need for Change (San Francisco: Project Information Literacy Research Institute, 2020), by Alison J. Head, Barbara Fister, and Margy MacMillan (PDF with commentary at projectinfolit.org)
• Only Connect: Discovery Pathways, Library Explorations and the Information Adventure (Lepton: Innovative Libraries, 2013), ed. by Andrew Walsh and Emma Coonan (PDF and Epub with commentary in the UK)
• Integrating Information into the Engineering Design Process (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2014), ed. by Michael Fosmire and David F. Radcliffe (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge (The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations, c2012), ed. by Jesus Lau, Anna Maria Tammaro, and T. J. D. Bothma (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)
• Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers, by Mike Caulfield (illustrated HTML at pressbooks.com)

• Communications in Information Literacy (2007-) (full serial archives)
• Journal of Radical Librarianship (2015-) (full serial archives)
• Journal of Information Literacy (JIL) (full serial archives)

• Library Philosophy and Practice (full serial archives)

• Staying Smart: How Today's Graduates Continue to Learn Once They Complete College (2016), by Alison J. Head (PDF with commentary at projectinfolit.org)

• Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, c2009), by Henry Jenkins (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship (second edition; New York: Free Expression Policy Project, c2003), by Marjorie Heins and Christina Cho (PDF at fepproject.org)

• Information Literacy: Research and Collaboration Across Disciplines (Fort Collins, CO: WAC Clearinghouse; Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, c2017), ed. by Barbara J. D'Angelo, Sandra Jamieson, Barry M. Maid, and Janice R. Walker (PDF and Epub files at Colorado)
• The Information Literacy User's Guide: An Open, Online Textbook (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, c2014), ed. by Greg Bobish and Trudi E. Jacobson (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Instruction in Libraries and Information Centers: An Introduction (Champaign, IL: Windsor and Downs Press, c2020), by Laura Saunders and Melissa Autumn Wong, contrib. by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (HTML and PDF at Illinois)
• Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data, and the Education of a New Generation of Researchers (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2015), ed. by Jake Carlson and Lisa Johnston (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data, and the Education of a New Generation of Researchers (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2015), ed. by Jake Carlson and Lisa Johnston (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• A New Literacies Dictionary: Primer for the Twenty-First Century Learner (c2011), by Adam Mackie (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers, by Mike Caulfield (illustrated HTML at pressbooks.com)

• Technology, Media Literacy, and the Human Subject: A Posthuman Approach (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Richard S. Lewis (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and "Worked Examples" as One Way Forward (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by James Paul Gee (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, c2009), by Henry Jenkins (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy: The Crisis of Information (London and New York: Routledge, c2022), by Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin (PDF files with commentary at Taylor and Francis)
• Multi-Media Romanticisms (2016), ed. by Andrew Burkett and James Brooke-Smith (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Mediactive (c2010), by Dan Gillmor (HTML and PDF with commentary at mediactive.com)
• You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polluted Information (prepublication edition; 2020), by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner (HTML at pubpub.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Measurement of Science: Study of the Development of Science as an Information Process (edited machine translation from Russian; 1971), by V. V. Nalimov and Z. M. Mul'chenko, ed. by Robert D. Hill (linked PDF files here at Penn)
• Data Science at the Command Line (free online edition; originally published 2014), by Jeroen Janssens (illustrated HTML at datascienceatthecommandline.com)
• Metalibrarianship: A Model for Intellectual Foundations of Library Science, by Joseph Z. Nitecki (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Nitecki Trilogy, by Joseph Z. Nitecki (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Essays of an Information Scientist (15 volumes), by Eugene Garfield (PDF files here at Penn)

• ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (c2007), by Joan M. Reitz (HTML with commentary at lu.com)

• Brazilian Journal of Information Science (in English and Portuguese; 2006-) (partial serial archives)
• Information (information science and technology journal; Basel: MDPI AG, 2010-) (full serial archives)
• Information Research (1995-) (full serial archives)
• Informing Science (1998-) (full serial archives)
• Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (partial serial archives)
• JLIS.it: Italian Journal of Library and Information Science (with articles in Italian and English; 2010-) (full serial archives)
• Webology (2004-) (full serial archives)
• Annals of Library and Information Studies (open access from 2002-) (partial serial archives)
• LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research e-Journal (issues online 1996-) (partial serial archives)
• Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research (2006-) (full serial archives)
• American Documentation (partial serial archives)
• Information Technology and Libraries (open access issues from mid-2011 onward) (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, by American Society for Information Science and Technology (partial serial archives)
• Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries (with some volumes of predecessor title Pakistan Journal of Library and Information Science) (partial serial archives)

• Philosophical Aspects of Library Information Science in Retrospect, by Joseph Z. Nitecki (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Quantitative Science Studies (full serial archives)

• Bioinformatics in Tropical Disease Research: A Practical and Case-Study Approach (2008), ed. by Arthur Gruber, Alan M. Durham, Chong Huynh, and Hernando A. del Portillo (illustrated HTML at NIH)
• Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (c2011), by Jason Brownlee
  • PDF at Github
  • PDF with commentary at Github
• The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (second edition, 2009), by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and J. H. Friedman (PDF with commentary at Stanford)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.