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Seema Sharma, Lovely Professional University Unit 11: User Education

Unit 11: User Education Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction
11.1 Concepts

11.2 Goals and Objectives

11.3 Levels
11.4 Techniques and Methods

11.5 Summary
11.6 Keywords

11.7 Review Questions

11.8 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Explain user education-concepts, goals and objectives
• Describe different levels of user education
• Realise techniques and methods.

Introduction

The various definitions of information literacy focuses on how it has evolved from library user
education, and the aims of various information literacy programmes. It emphasize that information
literacy is a signal skill for lifelong and flexible learning situations. It indicate the key role of librarians
in information literacy and identify some barriers to librarians’ effective involvement in and delivery
of these programmes. It does not cover pedagogical elements such as methods of teaching information
literacy and nor does It discuss the particular content of such programmes though It address generic
elements. Information literacy is not some entirely new phenomenon. The term “information literacy”
first appeared in library literature during the 1970s and it is now sometimes wrongly employed to
describe library user education and bibliographic instruction.
However, information literacy programmes do a great deal more than tell how to use the Library.
Information literacy is vitally tied to the strategic value and use of information. For the purposes of

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