海南大学图书馆张红霞在亚太组会议上宣读了《严峻挑战和历.docVIP

海南大学图书馆张红霞在亚太组会议上宣读了《严峻挑战和历史机遇：论中国信息数字教育Serious Challenge, Historic Opportunity: Information Literacy Education in China Zhang Hongxia Hainan University Library Haikou, Hainan Province, China E-mail: rbgzhx@ Abstract It has been three decades since 1974 when the concept Information Literacy was put forward firstly by Paul Zurbowski. In the past thirty years, the research and practice on information literacy education has gained a great deal of achievements, especially in developed countries. But in China, before 1994, few people knew the concept and nature of information literacy. Fortunately, in the recent ten years, more and more Chinese people increasingly have been paying much more attention to it. On January 7-9, 2002, the national Conference of College and University Information Literacy Education Research was taken place at Heilongjiang University in China, many LIS professionals and China’s Education Ministry officials participated the conference. That was the milestone on IL research and practice in china, because it was the first time for Chinese LIS profession to hold a national conference formally named information literacy, also it was the first time that the traditional course term Literature Retrieval was replaced by information literacy. Nowadays in china, there is no nationally agreed syllabus on information literacy education, but Developing information literacy education was put forward to be one of the college and university library’s five core institutional missions formulated by China’s Ministry of Education in 2002. It is a historic opportunity for China’s LIS profession to raise the prestige of library and to contribute to our society. Although we are behind in the information literacy research and practice compared with the developed countries, we are fully awareness of that we are facing the serious challenges, the author try to express the idea that as a LIS professional we will never shirk our responsibility and will never lose the co