The concept of literacy includes computer literacy, consumer literacy, information literacy, and visual literacy. In other words, literate adults must be able to gather and understand information on a variety of subjects through a number of different modes. Through it all, understanding is the key. Literacy means being able to understand new ideas well enough to use them when needed.
Literacy means knowing how to learn.
From Libraries for the National Educational Goals, Barbara K. Stripling, ERIC, 1992. Selects and analyzes information and communicates the results to others using oral, written, graphic, pictorial, or multimedia methods. They will not come to the workplace knowing all they have to know, but knowing how to figure out what they need to know, where to get it, and how to make meaning out of it.