Information Literacy and the Business Schools

Abstract

Abstract In today's “information society,” the amount of information to which we are exposed each day—in addition to that we could access if we knew it existed —is astounding. Yet with a few exceptions, today's business school graduate is not being adequately prepared to function in an information-literate fashion in a world of knowledge workers. In this article, I examine the topics of information, the information society, overload, and the concept of information literacy and establish a rationale for why universities—and business schools in particular—should be teaching the skills that form the foundation of an information-literate person. A review of what business schools are currently doing in this area (based on a literature review) concludes that not enough is being done, perhaps because of a lack of serious attention to this issue by the business school accreditation organizations.