Information Literacy in the Workplace

Informed and informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking, “Information Literacy in the Workplace” will prove to be applicably useful for librarians and LIS students in understanding how information literacy is experienced by the professions they support and academics teaching professional courses. It will also be of interest to professionals (e.g. medical, social care, legal and business based) and their employers in showing that IL is essential to best practice and key to ethical practice.

Students, librarians, professionals and organisations would do well to consider and explore the increasingly driven imperative that IL skills will be needed in a connected, ethical, constantly evolving future, and this book provides a platform to start on this road.

This book offers a fresh perspective and suggests ways to reframe IL so that it is acknowledged throughout a workplace as relevant and valuable. It provides ideas for information professionals on how to develop their own and their colleagues’ IL in a workplace context, as well as on how to support students in their transition to work…This book is relevant to information professionals who support workplaces, to academic librarians who support student and staff IL, and also to those who are studying IL.

Information Literacy in the Workplace makes the important point that IL is also essential in the contemporary workplace…I was particularly taken by Foster’s own chapter, “Information Literacy’s role in workplace competence, ‘best practice’ and the ethics of professional obligation,” in which he emphasizes that professionals are ethically required to use the best evidence they can in making their decisions since “[n]ot to be information-literate may result in harmful outcomes”

Dr Marc Forster is a librarian at the University of West London, looking after the needs of the College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare. His research interests include information literacy’s role in learning and in the performance of the professional role. Contributors: Christine S. Bruce, Professor, Information Systems School, Queensland University of Technology Bonnie Cheuk, Executive, Euroclear Stéphane Goldstein, Executive Director, InformAll Annemaree Lloyd, Professor, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås Stephen Roberts, Associate Professor, Information Management, University of West London Elham Sayyad Abdi, Associate Lecturer, Information Systems School, Queensland University of Technology Mary M. Somerville, University Librarian for University of the Pacific Libraries in Sacramento, San Francisco, and Stockton, California, USA Andrew Whitworth, Director of Teaching and Learning Strategy, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester

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