<P> The phrase information literacy first appeared in print in a 1974 report written on behalf of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science by Paul G. Zurkowski , who was at the time president of the Information Industry Association . Zurkowski used the phrase to describe the `` techniques and skills '' learned by the information literate `` for utilizing the wide range of information tools as well as primary sources in molding information solutions to their problems '' and drew a relatively firm line between the `` literates '' and `` information illiterates '' . </P>
<P> The phrase information literacy first appeared in print in a 1974 report written on behalf of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science by Paul G. Zurkowski , who was at the time president of the Information Industry Association . Zurkowski used the phrase to describe the `` techniques and skills '' learned by the information literate `` for utilizing the wide range of information tools as well as primary sources in molding information solutions to their problems '' and drew a relatively firm line between the `` literates '' and `` information illiterates '' . </P>
who started using the term information literacy and when was it coined
who started using the term information literacy and when was it coined
Paul G. Zurkowski 1974
Paul G. Zurkowski 1974