Information Literacy: Learning to Use Sources of Information

Abstract

Teaching primary school children sils of information retrieval is the beginning of a process of acquiring infomation literacy so necessary for an adequate mastery of present day information explosion. The program elaborated and applied in the Laboratory for Children's Librarianship of Haifa University Library aims at discovering what are the difficulties primary school pupils have in using bibliographic material and at creating means of coping with these difficulties. The subjects of the program are second to fourth graders from a variety of schools in Haifa area. The program is in its third year and has up to now encompassed over five hundred children.