Information Literacy has been defi ned above and is elaborated upon
throughout this publication.
3. The Eleven Stages of the Information Literacy Life Cycle
There are dozens, perhaps even hundreds of defi nitions of Information
Literacy, and each author and organization lists its own component
steps, stages or phases. Virtually all defi nitions, however, have in
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common one aspect, which is that there are several steps or stages
through which the application of the Information Literacy process
progresses, in a more or less progressive sequence. That is why we
call this multi-stage process a “life cycle.”