Measuring Information Literacy Policies

Information Literacy is still largely absent from the priorities of national information and education policies. A need for a systematic body of evidence on the strategic role of Information Literacy is recognised and leads to the identification of a set of variables, which can be useful to provide a first picture of the Information Literacy polices in Europe, with a particular focus on Higher Education. The set of variables constitutes the theoretical framework supporting the European Observatory on Information Literacy Policies and Research .