TY - CPAPER
KW - information literacy
KW - Information illiteracy
KW - Information anxiety
KW - Satisficing
AU - Isto Huvila
AU - Serap Kurbanoğlu
AU - Joumana Boustany
AU - Sonja Špiranec
AU - Esther Grassian
AU - Diane Mizrachi
AU - Loriene Roy
AB - In contrast to the relative abundance of conceptualisations of information literacy, the earlier research has placed considerably less attention on its alternatives. The findings show that there are shades of being less and non-literate beyond a mere lack of necessary skills or engagement in inappropriate practices. Information illiteracy can be experienced as a problem but it can also represent a conscious choice for delimiting and organising information practices. From a theoretical and practical perspective, this study suggests that both information literacies and information illiteracies should be taken into account in information literacy research and education, and when developing and deploying information systems and services to compensate for the lack of literacies.

BT - Information Literacy in the Workplace
CY - Cham
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_82
LA - eng
N2 - In contrast to the relative abundance of conceptualisations of information literacy, the earlier research has placed considerably less attention on its alternatives. The findings show that there are shades of being less and non-literate beyond a mere lack of necessary skills or engagement in inappropriate practices. Information illiteracy can be experienced as a problem but it can also represent a conscious choice for delimiting and organising information practices. From a theoretical and practical perspective, this study suggests that both information literacies and information illiteracies should be taken into account in information literacy research and education, and when developing and deploying information systems and services to compensate for the lack of literacies.

PB - Springer
PP - Cham
PY - 2018
T2 - Information Literacy in the Workplace
TI - Alternatives to Being Information Literate
SN - 978-3-319-74334-9
ER -