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October 9, 2009
By order of the President
President Obama has officially declared October 2009 "National Information Literacy Awareness Month." Go, Mr. President!
A couple of my favorite lines:
"Rather than merely possessing data, we must also learn the skills necessary to acquire, collate, and evaluate information for any situation. This new type of literacy also requires competency with communication technologies, including computers and mobile devices that can help in our day-to-day decisionmaking."
"Americans have unprecedented access to the diverse and independent sources of information, as well as institutions such as libraries and universities, that can help separate truth from fiction and signal from noise."
"An informed and educated citizenry is essential to the functioning of our modern democratic society, and I encourage educational and community institutions across the country to help Americans find and evaluate the information they seek, in all its forms."
Are your information skills up to scratch? At the rate things are changing, we all have to stay on our toes to be the smartest information users we can be.
Posted by KellyAddleman at October 9, 2009 8:51 AM