Information literacy encompasses inter-professional skills that serve the largely independent acquisition and exchange of information and knowledge.
In the knowledge society of post-industrial capitalism, these skills are particularly decisive in the competition for a job, where ‘self-organisation’ (lifelong learning), ‘personal responsibility’ (self-employment) and ‘social-communicative action’ (teamwork) are central components of modern job profiles.
The goal is the competent use of information and information products as well as the national information infrastructure.