Information Literacy: introductory studies on the subject in Italy
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Information literacy, Literature review, Italy.Abstract
This study addresses the issue of information literacy in Italy. With the increasing amount of information available to the general public, the development of information literacy has also risen in importance in contemporary society. Through bibliographic research, this article reviews the published literature about information literacy in Italy. It points to information sources featuring available work on the subject, as well as the main publications dealing with it, and provides a survey of the topics discussed in the scientific literature about information literacy in Italy. Studies were retrieved from the Directory of Open Access Journals, Library and Information Science Abstracts, Information Science & Technology Abstracts and Web of Science databases and from surveys published by Basili (2014) and Crocetti (2012). Data gathered from 2013 to 2018 from the European Conferences on Information Literacy complemented those results, and a total of 136 documents was identified. Discussions about information literacy in Italy were found to have been growing since 1990 and to have intensified after 2004 with the work of influent Italian researchers such as Carla Basili and Laura Ballestra. The Italian studies reviewed were found to relate information literacy to several topics, among which: concerns about nonexistent or insufficient public policy, practical actions, ethical and environmental issues, vulnerable groups, the health care field and technology.Downloads
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