Information Literacy in Malaysia, China, USA

The IFLA Information Literacy Section newsletter, Summer 2023, is published. It contains four articles:
- The Action Plan on Improving Digital Literacy and Skills of the Whole People in China: To Build a Digital Inclusion Society by Qiong Tang and Yufan Wu
- NILA: Malaysia’s National Information Literacy Agenda by Nor Edzan Che Nasir
- Information Literacy at an Independent High School by Sarah Hernandez (USA)
- A Visual Arts Competition to Celebrate and Share Undergraduate Research by Merinda Kaye Hensley (USA)
Go to https://repository.ifla.org/handle/123456789/2662

Nasir provides the definitions agreed for Information Literacy and an information literate individual in Malaysia
"Information literacy is the ability that empowers individuals to identify, evaluate, manage, create and disseminate the needed information in various mediums and formats ethically to support lifelong learning."
"An information literate individual has the ability to:
i. Identify information for current needs
ii. Build an effective and efficient information searching strategy
iii. Evaluate critically the information obtained in order to retrieve quality information
iv. Manage information in various mediums and formats systematically
v. Use information ethically by understanding the issues related to the use of the information
vi. Create new knowledge based on the information obtained to support lifelong learning
vii .Disseminate and share information responsibly with other individuals and the civil society through various mediums and formats
Image created by Sheila Webber with Midjourney AI, July 2023