"information literacy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: information literacies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} information literacy (plural information literacies)
  1. (information science) The overall understanding of how information is produced and valued, and used to create new knowledge. Wikipedia link: information literacy Categories (topical): Information science Translations (ability): informaatiolukutaito (Finnish), informationskompetens [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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