The transdisciplinary nature of IL has given it a meandering history in which scholars have pondered from many perspectives - its character thus being taken for granted, advocated, debated and sometimes contested.
Christine Bruce
Information literacy is a vaccine against disinformation and misinformation, and a vital vitamin for survival.
Kazu (Kazuyuki) SUNAGA
The concept of IL as a discipline provides an epistemological coherence and integrity to the substantial body of accumulated knowledge, and a touchstone for progress.
Recognizing it as a discipline provides the pathway forward for formal and informal ways to talk, teach, and apply information literacy in the academy and beyond, as well as in everyday information experiences.
Karen Kaufmann
Information plays a crucial function in every aspect of our lives. Recognizing information literacy as a discipline will nurture new research highlighting information literacy in addressing societal information challenges.
Clarence Maybee
The Handbook being put together by the ILIAD group offers a unique opportunity to find many examples of tacit knowledge related to information literacy as a discipline in one resource.
John Budd
IL is a key facet of human development in society, political economy and active citizenship.
The time has come to recognize that information literacy needs to move to the next level and be considered a viable, core academic discipline that is taught with the same rigor as any other discipline.
