The Importance Of Information Literacy In Education

Information literacy (IL) is highly important for university students to access a wide variety of information and skills for keeping up with new developments and experiments. Literacy skill explains that knowledge is important to Engineering disciplines and makeup year by year as student’s progress through their study. Every Engineering student is dealing with a library as the main source of the method to gain information literacy that gives effective skills for their education and future progress. Students have many methods for searching the information from last ten years. However, google scholar and library are mainly suitable to get Engineering literacy. A library is a most effective way to obtain more accurate and reliable information than google scholar.

Information literacy improves the knowledge and skills to locate, evaluate and use information appropriately for becoming an effective learner for Engineering and Science students. Because, IL engages the engineering students to emphasize the needs to access, organize and present information for environmental sustainability, social and ethical responsibility. For example, Engineering students are expected to analyze a variety of problems for a basic level to create solutions for problems as well as identifying personal values. As Harris (2016, p. 184) explains: ‘Students have a positive perception of the STEM ILI curriculum and the opportunities, it provided for learning new information and skills’. It describes that