Abstract: Information literacy is one of the most powerful means to enhance the social influence of the
library profession, and it is also a hot topic in the development of the librarianship. This discussion invited
librarians and scholars from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macao to express their
opinions and talk about the contemporary value and the direction of development in the field of information
literacy. Wu Jianzhong points out that information literacy education is an important instrument for libraries
to participate in and integrate into the society. It should become a public course in universities and society
and a compulsory course for administrators. In this process, information literacy education itself needs to 
be improved and perfected. Joyce Chao-chen Chen believes that the ability to solve complex problems and
the ability for critical thinking is the most important core competence to cultivate in the information literacy
education. She also provides Taiwan's experience in information literacy education by presenting relevant
reform initiatives in Taiwan's primary, secondary and high schools. Peter Sidorko discusses the case of
information literacy project of the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) of the Hong
Kong Special Administrative Region, and observes that promoting information literacy education will help
to form a social atmosphere that is willing to explore new ideas and focus on new knowledge, and ultimately
create a better world. Zhang Jiuzhen, by discussing the activities and cases at home and abroad, shows that
in the background of big data and AI development, data literacy is becoming an important component
and the direction of information literacy. Huang Ruhua, based on the goals of the UN 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, suggests that information literacy education can play a more extensive role in
promoting social development, and librarians should seize the opportunity of information literacy education
to enhance the transformation of the world. Pan Yantao takes the real cases on the Internet as the starting
point of analysis and emphasizes that information literacy has become a necessary element for all the
people to survive in the digital age. Wu Dan and Dong Jing examines the information literacy research in
the field of library and information science abroad in the past ten years from the perspective of theoretical
research, and suggests that information literacy has always been a subject of special concern in the field of
library and information science. Priscilla Nga Ian Pun believes that information literacy is a multi-faceted
comprehensive ability, and emphasizes critical thinking and independent and lifelong learning, because its
connotation is extending to global perspective, innovative thinking, collaborative development and so on.

Key words: Information literacy, Library, Social development