Introductory Remarks

For a number of years there appears to have been evidence that a research territory, which may be labelled information literacy is being formed. This idea is based on the premise that information literacy research is constituted by those engaged in the work: “Information literacy researchers see their research as belonging to the information literacy domain or ‘territory’, and as they widen the scope of that research they construct the domain ” (2000) Bruce (2000) suggests that the territory of information literacy research may be described in term of five dimensions: 1) the sectoral location of the research, 2) ways of seeing information literacy, 3) what is being investigated – the research object 4) how the object is being investigated – the research approach 5) disciplinary influences. She also suggests likely trajectories for future information literacy research: • Growth beyond the educational sector • Attention to a wider variety of cultural settings • A firmer more consolidated research agenda • Greater collaboration between researchers • An agenda driven by funding priorities. This paper broadly reviews current directions in information literacy research and focuses attention on a range of development in the QUT Centre for Informatio