Share your interactive ePaper on all platforms and on your website with our embed function. In MemoriamDedicated to the memory of Dr. English and the Multilingual Challenge Individual Language List Contributions German Deutsch Language in Germany Polish Polski Language ForewordThe world is changing at a staggering pace. The way we communicate, learn, create and access informationand knowledge is being revolutionised by new information andcommunication technologies ICTs , and the increasing flow ofcontent they generate.
We arepromoting the potential of open and inclusive technologies, free,independent and pluralistic media and information organizationsto advance development in a way that enhances the rights andopportunities of people to become fully empowered citizens. Weare working to ensure that technological advances and theexplosion of information and media content benefit all membersof society and marginalize no one. We believe that media and information literacy is one of thepreconditions of sustainable development and that literate use ofinformation and media will help ensure that everyone enjoys thefull benefits of freedom of expression and access to information.
Overview of Information Literacy Resources Worldwide The need for accessing educational resources on InformationLiteracy has been identified by various professional communitiesencouraged this new publication. In order to provide inclusive andmultilingual Information Literacy resources for Library andInformation Science professionals, teachers, researchers, andstudents, among others, this second edition brings togetherInformation Literacy contributions in one-hundred and twentysevenlanguages from all over the world.
I am confident that this publication will contribute to botheducation and research, to improve the awareness of both usersand experts from different backgrounds and nationalities. My warm thanks goto all of the contributors, as well as to their colleagues and thepeer reviewers, for the collective commitment that produced thisunique selection of educational and research resources onInformation Literacy from across the world.
Sharon Weiner, Professor and W. Boekhorst forpermission to use his beautiful enhancement of the officialinternational Information Literacy logo, which was originallydesigned several years ago by a young Cuban artist, Edgar LuyPerez, who won a contest sponsored by IFLA and chaired by apanel of judges organized by Jesus Lau of Mexico. This is in part because, whilethe information and communications cultures in every region inthe world have many common elements, in the end they are eachquite distinctive and uniquely tied to each country, its indigenouslanguages, its history, its traditions, and its cultures.
