Information Literacy and Workplace Performance
eBook - PDF

Information Literacy and Workplace Performance

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

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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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2002
Print ISBN
9781567204544
eBook ISBN
9780313076626

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1. Information and Knowledge: Foundations for Twenty-First Century Work
  4. 2. Information Literacy: The One Skill
  5. 3. Communicating in the Digital Age: Mixing the Old with the New
  6. 4. Thinking and Action-Taking Skills: Exercising Information Power
  7. 5. Creativity, Innovation, and Risk Taking: Taking the Extra Step to Action
  8. 6. Computer Literacy: Information Literacy’s Shadow
  9. 7. Subject Matter Literacy: Knowing the Territory
  10. 8. Learning How to Learn: A Foundation for Information Power
  11. 9. On-the-Job Help: A Click Away
  12. 10. Humans Don’t Live on Digits Alone: Placing Information Power in Context
  13. 11. The Future: Maintaining Information Power
  14. Notes
  15. Index