| The last three decades of information skills and information literacy research are surveyed, with particular reference to work conducted in schools that may enrich the development of information literacy work in HE. Attention is also drawn to pedagogic concepts that are already informing information literacy work in the schools sector. Five issues are identified where further research in the HE domain would be useful and where research evidence from other sectors could prove valuable. A student-focussed framework for information literacy (based on the foregoing research and pedagogic concepts) is then offered here for the first time as a step towards addressing the five issues. |