ITALICS e-journal focusses on Information Literacy

Italics is the e-journal from the Information and Computer Sciences Department of The Higher Education Academy. The latest edition is devoted to a subject of great importance to school librarians. Although it is aimed at Higher Education, there is much here that will be of interest.

Susie Andretta (London Metropolitan University) is the guest editor of this issue which focuses on Information Literacy and the challenges of implementation. The issue includes 6 papers which look at experiences of information practices that highlight the concerns of educators from diverse professional backgrounds.

As Andretta notes in her editorial, 'One of the key issues presented here is that information literacy is a fundamental requirement for a learning society. As a result Higher Education Institutions need to implement information literacy education as a top-down initiative, where lifelong learning initiatives are promoted by institutional learning and teaching policies, and as a bottom-up approach to fully integrate these strategies in curricular activities that facilitate a dynamic investigation of the disciplines.'

Volume 5 Issue 1, Information Literacy: challenges of implementation