2 1 century is an era of knowledge economy with knowledge, learning and innovation. It is also an er
2 1 century is an era of knowledge economy with knowledge, learning and innovation. It is also an era of information explosion. This era needs high information literacy talents with keen information awareness, good information ethics and skilled use of information skills. National quality, especially information quality, will greatly affect a country's comprehensive national strength, informatization level and information innovation ability. It can be seen that what the information society needs is not a simple information transmitter or user, but a person with strong information consciousness, who can skillfully use modern information technology means, can summarize and synthesize a large number of trivial information and materials, and use and innovate them, with high information literacy.
Higher vocational education is an important part of China's higher education, and its talent training goal is clear, that is, to train practical, skilled and managerial talents who are oriented to the front line of production, service and management, have skilled professional knowledge and operational skills, and have certain innovation and scientific research ability. Therefore, information literacy education for students in higher vocational colleges is to meet the needs of the development of social informatization, and college students are the pillars of building the motherland. Only by receiving information literacy education can we adapt to the development of the future society better and faster. As the document resource department and information center of the school, the library of higher vocational colleges is the strong backing of school education and scientific research services, and also an important position to promote the all-round quality education of college students.
Higher vocational education must realize that the ultimate goal of higher vocational education informatization is to cultivate college students with learning ability in the information age and lay a solid foundation for establishing a learning society. The prerequisite for the application of information achievements is that college students must have good information literacy and know how to use these rich resources and information service system to promote their own learning and improve their comprehensive quality. Therefore, cultivating college students' good information literacy is not only the basis of utilizing the achievements of higher education informatization, but also the main purpose of higher education informatization. There is no reason not to attach importance to college students' information literacy education, otherwise the achievements of informatization will not play a role and the process of informatization will lose its due significance.
In modern society, the library is not only an important cultural facility of a country, but also a social organization to carry forward the excellent national culture and build a new culture. At the same time, it is also a classroom for the broad masses of people to receive social and cultural education, learn cultural knowledge and improve their own quality, and it is also a place for national lifelong education. The lifelong education function of the library makes people adapt to the needs of the development of the knowledge economy era in terms of values, knowledge level and working and living ability. The subtle ideological and moral education function of books can guide people to form civilized, healthy and scientific social customs and harmonious new socialist interpersonal relationships; The reading activities of the library can give us extensive knowledge and enrich the spiritual world, thus improving the overall quality of the Chinese nation; The information literacy education activities of the library can cultivate the public's information acquisition ability and adapt to the modern information society. The library is rich in information resources and information networks, and it is a distribution center for storing, collecting and disseminating information, which provides a material basis for information literacy education.
At the same time, librarians generally have profound professional knowledge of library and information and related skills in dealing with information, which is a bridge between information resources and users. Long-term work practice has enabled them to have certain information literacy. Therefore, the library has the responsibility and ability to shoulder the responsibility of information literacy education, and the library should also give full play to its own favorable conditions and advantages in information literacy education.
1, the basic connotation of information literacy and information literacy education
1. 1 Basic connotation of information literacy
The concept of information literacy was first put forward by Paul Zekowski, chairman of the American Information Industry Association, from 65438 to 0974, which was summarized as "the technology and skills to solve problems by using a large number of information tools and major information resources". 1979 American information industry association interprets it as "people know the technology and skills of using information when solving problems". In 1980s, the connotation of information literacy was further expanded and clarified, including not only various information technologies and skills, but also individual attitudes towards information, such as information demand awareness, information determination and use, information value evaluation and judgment, rational and accurate use of information, information acceptance and evaluation, etc. The simple definition comes from the elaboration of the American Library Association, that is, "individuals can identify, retrieve, evaluate and effectively use information when they need it." The basic definition of academic recognition in China is that "information literacy and information ability are the consciousness, quality and ability of individuals and organizations to effectively determine, search and obtain the information they need". Information literacy is a comprehensive quality composed of information demand, information consciousness, information ability and information morality. Among them, information demand mainly refers to the individual's desire for information, which is the internal cause of information behavior; Information consciousness refers to people's concept and conscious ability in activities, which is mainly reflected in their sensitivity, concentration, judgment and creativity to information; Information ability refers to people's ability to effectively use information equipment and information resources to obtain information. Processing mainly includes identification, acquisition, identification, retrieval, processing, utilization, analysis, synthesis, communication and mastering the application ability of modern information technology. Information morality refers to the sum of moral norms that individuals should follow in information activities. It includes taking corresponding responsibilities and obligations in information activities, following information laws and regulations to prevent illegal acts, and ensuring the fairness and authenticity of information activities.
From the meaning of information literacy, having information literacy not only enables learners to better grasp the learning content and expand the research scope, but also enables learners to conduct self-guidance and self-control on their own learning.
1.2 Basic connotation of information literacy education
Information literacy education refers to a series of educational activities to cultivate students' awareness and ability to use information in learning, which is the need of "lifelong learning" and "open learning" in a learning society. The content is mainly composed of information consciousness, information ethics and information laws and regulations education, information ability education and so on. Among them, information awareness education mainly cultivates people's sensitivity to information, or the consciousness of capturing, analyzing, judging and absorbing information; The education of information ethics and information laws and regulations requires people to prevent information garbage and information pollution, not to produce, not to disseminate or use bad information, not to use the Internet for personal attacks, not to infringe on other people's intellectual property rights, business secrets and privacy rights, and not to use information technology for illegal and criminal activities. Information ability education includes information cognitive ability, information acquisition ability, information processing ability and information utilization ability.
Carrying out information literacy education is not only a simple skill education of information acquisition, retrieval, expression and communication, but also a comprehensive information ability education to solve information problems and carry out innovative thinking. It is also to cultivate people's ability to adapt to the knowledge structure, continue learning, research and divergent thinking in the information society, promote the development of information wisdom and information psychology of individual members of society with independent learning attitudes and methods, and cultivate information concepts, information initiative and subjectivity. Its significance is not only the goal of a specific stage, but the lifelong goal pursued by every member of society and the basic survival ability of every member of society in the information age.
2. The advantages of the library in information literacy education
2. 1 resource advantages
The library has rich collection resources of various carriers, which provides a material basis for carrying out information literacy education. Rich library resources attract students with a strong thirst for knowledge, and people can obtain the information they need through various channels and means, which provides sufficient guarantee for information literacy education.
2.2 Technical advantages
The modern facilities of the library are relatively complete, which provides technical support for developing information literacy. With rich knowledge reserves and advanced computer application technology, the library provides students with various literature information services, collects information through various means and ways, and develops network resources; Electronic reading room, audio-visual room and multimedia reading room provide places for students to query information resources, and advanced information retrieval facilities provide practical means for students.
2.3 personnel advantage
The library has a group of librarians with rich theory and practice and high information quality. They have the ability to process, process, organize and search information, keen information awareness and skilled use of various information tools. They are the leaders of information literacy education.
2.4 Environmental advantages
Library is not only a place for information dissemination, but also a distribution center for human culture. It attracts college students with its solemn and elegant architectural design, clean and quiet internal environment, spacious and bright study space and strong culture and study atmosphere, which has a subtle effect on students' information moral education. It can make college students follow certain information ethics standards, standardize their information behavior activities, enlighten their thoughts, cultivate their sentiments and purify their hearts.
3. Specific measures for university libraries to carry out information literacy education for college students.
In the quality education of college students, the library should not only give full play to its wisdom passively, but also give full play to the initiative of library work around the center of quality education and actively take corresponding measures to create conditions to serve the quality education of college students.
3. 1 Improve the comprehensive quality of librarians, including information awareness, information ability, educational knowledge, computer ability and foreign language level. In order to impart knowledge and dispel doubts, university librarians must have excellent professional level and good comprehensive quality. Therefore, we must intensify our efforts to improve the comprehensive quality of librarians in the whole school.
3.2 Actively carry out reader-oriented work. Through the guidance of readers, university libraries can better understand the library, understand the organization and acquisition of library information resources, and cultivate their ability to solve practical problems by using the library. The reader-oriented activities of the library can be carried out in the following aspects. First, carry out the education of freshmen entering the library. Freshmen who have just entered the university have a sense of freshness and strangeness about the library. Through freshmen's library entrance education, we can understand the collection structure, workflow, rules and regulations of the library, establish basic library concepts, and lay a good foundation for better utilization of the library in the future. Second, popularize modern information technology knowledge by recommending reading and holding special lectures.
3.3 Carry out reader training. The literature retrieval course in colleges and universities in China has always been short of students' practical operation ability and modern technical knowledge. In recent years, with the acceleration of the automation process of university libraries, great changes have taken place in the working methods of libraries. Modern information retrieval methods, such as CD-ROM retrieval and online retrieval, have surpassed the traditional manual retrieval, accounting for an increasing proportion in the library. Therefore, it has become one of the important ways for libraries to organize college students to carry out modern information technology training. Training content can include CD-ROM retrieval, online retrieval, database knowledge, etc. The main purpose is to enable students to master the principles and methods of computer testing, so that they can independently carry out computer retrieval operations.
3.4 Offering literature retrieval courses to open the key to the information and knowledge treasure house for students. Guide college students to master the methods of literature information retrieval and acquisition. The library plays an important role in guiding college students to master the methods of searching and obtaining information. The first is to evaluate and recommend retrieval tools. The second is to strengthen the teaching of literature retrieval knowledge, focusing on the query and use of various retrieval tools, retrieval theory and skills, literature distribution and simple information analysis and research methods to solve the problem of how to query information. The third is information technology knowledge education. Through practical operation, improve students' computer application level and network retrieval skills, and know how to use tools to query and obtain information.
In short, it is the responsibility of university libraries to give full play to their own advantages in resources, talents, technology and environment in information literacy education for college students. As the main body of information literacy education, the library should not only make use of its own advantages and strengths, but also constantly sum up, improve and explore new methods and models of information literacy education in practice, complete the sacred mission entrusted to us by the times, take information technology education as the foundation, and take the cultivation of information ability and information ethics as the core.
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