Libraly Journal

Libraly Journal ›› 2020, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (1): 26-38.

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Research on the Usage and Development of Information Literacy Theory in the Recent Ten Years

Wu Dan, Li Xiuyuan, Xu Shuang, Dong Jing, Fan Shu, Gui Danyun   

  • Online:2020-01-10 Published:2020-01-09

Abstract: Based on the content analysis method, this paper encodes and analyzes the Chinese and English
literature data of information literacy theory in the past ten years from the perspective of theoretical subject
and theoretical use method, focusing on the academic disciplines from which the theories are borrowed, and
how these theories are generated and applied. The paper reveals the theoretical application and development
trends of “information literacy”: 1) there is limited amount of research on information literacy theory, and
of theories per se; 2) the development of information literacy theory mainly relies on the development of
library and information science, supplemented by psychology and pedagogy; 3) theoretical research objects
are limited, and the disciplines where theories derive remain the same few, lacking innovation, whereas the
research focus is mostly on the education and teaching of teachers and libraries; 4) the application of theory
and the use of theoretical generation have two different kinds of dynamics: inheritance and one-to-many.

Key words: Information literary, Theory, Usage of theory