Ability to obtain, evaluate and use information from various information sources (library, Internet, etc.). ), mainly including information awareness, information knowledge, information ability, information ethics, etc. Among them, information consciousness is the premise, information knowledge is the foundation, information ability is the guarantee, and information morality is the criterion. Information literacy is a part of people's comprehensive quality, and it is one of the basic abilities necessary for future information society life. Specifically, information literacy includes four aspects:

1, information awareness

Information consciousness is the premise of information literacy, the degree of people's sensitivity to information, people's keen sensitivity to information, and their persistent concern, insight and judgment on the value of information. It determines people's conscious degree of capturing, judging and using information. Information consciousness includes subject consciousness, information acquisition consciousness, information dissemination consciousness, information renewal consciousness, information security consciousness and so on.

2. Information knowledge

Information knowledge is the basis of information literacy, and it is knowledge about the characteristics and types of information, the basic laws and ways of information exchange and dissemination, the functions and functions of information, information retrieval and so on. Information knowledge can not only change people's knowledge structure, but also activate the original professional knowledge so that cultural knowledge and professional knowledge can play a greater role.

3. Information ability

Information ability is the guarantee and the most important aspect of information literacy. It includes people's ability to acquire, process, communicate, apply and create information. Information ability education is to cultivate and train people to skillfully apply information technology, identify the information they need from a large number of messy information, and obtain and use information quickly and effectively according to their own information knowledge, information skills and information retrieval tools to create new information.

4. Information ethics

Information morality is the standard of information literacy, and good information morality is an indispensable part of information literacy. Information ethics means that when organizing and using information, we should establish a correct legal concept, enhance the awareness of information security, improve the ability of judging and evaluating information, and use information resources accurately and reasonably.