Business and Workplace Information Literacy: Three Perspectives

Businesses want workers who are critical thinking problem-solvers, who know how to find, evaluate, and use information to address work-related issues, and communicate effectively regarding those issues, much like the information literacy (IL) or media and information literacy (MIL) efforts worldwide recently described in this column. In businesses at all levels and in the workplace, IL/MIL is not a familiar phrase. Undaunted, however, librarians in many types of libraries try to help their users with these very issues. Here, Malafi et al analyzing the contents of a repository and developing sequential supportive curricula and materials for librarians and for their users to extend and expand their business and workplace IL.