Informationskompetenz in Unternehmen

Information society and knowledge economy are developing at a fast pace. Controlling the power and value of information has become a basic need for enterprises. But the number of information resources and retrieval tools for use by anyone within an enterprise has exploded in the past 15 years and replaced many of the traditional information services departments. Information literacy today is seen as a key competence for organisations on which they can build their productivity. A DGI working group for “Information literacy in enterprises (IK-U)” is currently discussing how to show the importance of information literacy as an individual asset as well as a corporate asset. This raises the question what organisations mean, when they talk about information literacy within their corporation. How does it impact internal productivity and what is the role of employees in the concept? The presentation looks at these questions and ends with an overview of the needs of enterprises with regards to the information literacy skills of academic newcomers