OCLC report: Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers
- Examines the "unbundling of content" from traditional containers (books, journals, CDs) and distribution methods (postal mail, resource sharing).
- Top trends
1. Legitimacy of open-source publishing
2. Rapidly expanding economics of microcontent
3. Repurposing of "old" content for new media
4. Multimedia content as service for an array of portable devices
"Information Literacy and Information Technology Literacy: New Components in the Curriculum for a Digital Culture"
- Information technology literacy deals with an understanding of the technology infrastructure that underpins much of today's life.
- Information literacy: deals with content and communication. Content can take many forms: text, images, video, computer simulations, multi-media interactive works.
- Information technology shapes the channels of publication, access and dissemination of information.
- One perspective emphasizes skills in the use of tools: word processing, spreadsheets, basic operation of computers, and basic Internet tools.
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