Relationship between information literacy, staff management and organizational learning: a reflection around public libraries

Abstract

Introduction: the librarians, when being information managers, can develop the information literacy understanding that each individual is able to create, acquire, and share the knowledge, which infers in economic and social values of the organization, as it appropriates of more competent professionals in the management and execution of processes, and activities. It is understood that the information literacy in as part of the staff management, and of the organizational learning models.
Objective: to understand the relationship between the information literacy, the staff management, as well as the organization learning to the professional performance in public libraries.
Methodology: the research is bibliographic, and explanatory, using qualitative approach, and descriptive type.
Results: the staff management in order to the development of the meaningful learning in public libraries has to work with different abilities, which includes: ability to recognize the information needs, to store and to retrieve information, to apply information to create and to communicate knowledge, to make effective and ethical use of information, and to locate and to evaluate the quality of the information.
Conclusions: when working with the interdisciplinary abilities of the three areas approached by this study, the librarians which work in public libraries will be able to democratize the information access, empowering the users for their critical use, and making them citizens.