DOCUMENTATION,INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE ›› 2014, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (2): 54-59.doi: 10.13366/j.dik.2014.02.054

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Popularizing Citizens’ Information Literacy:The Realistic Choice of Bibliography Popularization in the Digital Age

  

  • Online:2014-03-10 Published:2014-03-10

Abstract:

Information literacy is the extension and development of bibliography in the digital era. Information literacy is information awareness, methods and capabilities to meet demand such as citizens’learning,research,employment,entrepreneurship,work,life,and etc. Information literacy is also a basic literacy of citizens for survival and development in the information society. Bibliography is the discipline source of information literacy. It provided practical bibliographic methods and information awareness for information literacy. Popularize citizens’ information literacy is an inherent requirement and external power of the development of the bibliography discipline. It contributes to refining the noumenon of the discipline, expanding the breadth of research, promoting the application depth. Bibliography workers and their academic organization Bibliography Professional Committee should focus on the spread of information literacy of College Students, promote information literacy as a compulsory subject, standardize information literacy teaching content, publish high-quality textbooks about information literacy, organize textbook demonstration teaching courses or teaching seminars, along with Teaching Guidance Committee of Ministry of Education of Library Science and Higher School of Library and Information Work Guidance Committee of Ministry of Education. In addition, they should create the conditions to popularizing information literacy of schoolchildren and the general public, achieving the goal of popularizing bibliographic knowledge, ultimately enhancing the status of bibliography discipline.

Keywords: Bibliography, Popularize, Information literacy, Digital bibliography, Information literacy education, Development of bibliography