Australian School Library Association Policy Statement - Information Literacy Information is as essential to our survival as water, food, shelter and sleep.
Information is, however, much more than a survival tool.
Information unleashes our imagination and challenges our preconceptions and thereby provides us with a pathway to personal growth and fulfilment. Throughout history the processing of information has been essential to assist human survival and growth. The last few decades have witnessed an amazing increase in the quantity of information and the Australian workforce is now concentrated around the collection, analysis, manipulation and communication of that information. Change has been so dramatic that Australia can now be described as an information society. Today's decision makers are often overwhelmed with information and the challenge for them is to choose that which is appropriate.