VI. Spain
Information Literacy State-of-the Art Report
August, 2006
María Pinto
Professor of Information Science
Universidad de Granada
Granada, Spain
mpinto@mariapinto.es
Dora Sales
Lecturer in Documentation
Universidad Jaume I
Castellón de la Plana, Spain
A. Introduction
In Spain, the terms, concepts and services relating to information competence have been used in research and practice since the 1990s, but the actual Spanish term and concept for information literacy, alfabetización informacional (acronym: ALFIN), has only begun to appear in the LIS literature since about the year 2000 (Gómez Hernández and Pasadas Ureña, 2003).
Information literacy (INFOLIT or IL) is now an important object of attention in Spain's library science milieux. The concept is now invoked to promote the educational dimension of the library and its immense potentialities for user education. Nonetheless, greater attention needs to be paid to the subject by the teaching and research community in the area of Library Sciences and Documentation (Biblioteconomía y Documentación) in Spain: a much greater effort is required if Spain is to catch up with countries like Australia, New Zealand, the UK or the US. At the international level, INFOLIT is proving to be a field of work of major potential and importance, in which there is much to be done. It is, besides, a field which gives visibility and recognition to the key role played by Library Sciences and Documentation in all higher education curricula and programs in today's Information and Knowledge Society.
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