I’m intrigued by Karin Dalziel’s Chart of 4 Types of Infor­ma­tion Lit­er­acy, although I would add “eval­u­at­ing” to the first “infor­ma­tion lit­er­acy” box.

Sadly, most libraries don’t teach her third and fourth types — media lit­er­acy and dig­i­tal lit­er­acy. For sev­eral years, I’ve high­lighted Illi­nois’ Project Next Gen­er­a­tion in my pre­sen­ta­tions and how it cre­ates col­lab­o­ra­tive work spaces where kids can learn the skills nec­es­sary for media and dig­i­tal lit­era­cies. I’d still like to see more libraries pro­vide these types of oppor­tu­ni­ties because after all, where else are these they (and adults) going to learn them? Are libraries really just about books and infor­ma­tion, or is there more we can and should be edu­cat­ing users about? Or at least pro­vid­ing the spaces in which they can do that?