What Is Business Information Literacy and Can the Corporate Librarian Contribute Anything to the Discourse?

Abstract

The concept of business information literacy is explored through content analysis of scholarly literature and interviews with business information professionals in academic and corporate contexts. The business school librarian was found to prioritize library instruction whereas the conversion of information to competitive intelligence is important for the corporate librarian. The findings are also found to be part of wider debates surrounding information literacy and higher education.

KEYWORDS:

• information literacy
• business information literacy
• business school librarian
• corporate librarian
• higher education

Notes

1. All references with an asterisk were also used for the content analysis.