
- 248 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Information Literacy and Workplace Performance
About this book
Today's workplace demands skills for a knowledgeable, productive use of information. Success, both personal and organizational, comes from finding what is essential and optimizing its effectiveness. Goad teaches readers how to swim in a potentially overwhelming sea of data. Information literacy—the ability to recognize the need for information, to locate, access, select, and apply it—was once an academic matter. Nowadays, this critical array of skills concerns anyone working in a knowledge-based environment. This easy-to-read, lucid guide attends to basic skills, thinking and decision-making, creativity enhancement, innovation and risk taking, computer literacy, subject matter literacy, learning how to learn, and securement of on-the-job help. As a special bonus, Goad discusses an unusual but highly relevant topic: how do we place work into the framework of our lives, and how can information literacy help? Both public and private sectors will find this an important resource for people at all organizational levels, making it a must have for anyone whose world is built on information.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Information and Knowledge: Foundations for Twenty-First Century Work
- 2. Information Literacy: The One Skill
- 3. Communicating in the Digital Age: Mixing the Old with the New
- 4. Thinking and Action-Taking Skills: Exercising Information Power
- 5. Creativity, Innovation, and Risk Taking: Taking the Extra Step to Action
- 6. Computer Literacy: Information Literacy’s Shadow
- 7. Subject Matter Literacy: Knowing the Territory
- 8. Learning How to Learn: A Foundation for Information Power
- 9. On-the-Job Help: A Click Away
- 10. Humans Don’t Live on Digits Alone: Placing Information Power in Context
- 11. The Future: Maintaining Information Power
- Notes
- Index