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Information literacy should in fact be conceived more broadly as a new liberal art that extends from knowing how to use computers and access information to critical reflection on the nature of information itself, its technical infrastructure, and its social, cultural, and even philosophical context and impact.

Shapiro, Jeremy J. and Shelley K. Hughes.  "Information Literacy as a Liberal Art:  Enlightenment proposals for a new curriculum."  Educom Review. http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewarticles/31231.html