The term firstly occurred in the library context and is defined by the American Library Association (1989, p. 1) as “the ability to recognize when information is needed and the ability to locate, evaluate, and use the needed information effectively. Ultimately, information literate people are those who have learned how to learn. They know how to learn because they know how knowledge is organized, how to find information and how to use information in such a way that others can learn from them. They are people prepared for lifelong learning, because they can always find the information needed for any task or decision at hand”. This influential definition illustrated information literacy as a linear process of information handling. Hence, it is a rather prescriptive and formulaic definition, which is based upon the assumption of a formally expressed information need. However, people do not always have an information need in advance; it is also possible that information just comes around, for example in the case of people that are watching television.