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information literacy per se, instead it focuses on the relationship between
user and their experience of their information world.

FIGURE 1. THE RELATIONAL MODEL OF INFORMATION LITERACY (BRUCE, 1997)

More recently, Bruce (2008) renamed the relational model of

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information literacy. The new name, Informed Learning, was adopted
to promote the model’s focus on the “learner-centered, experiential, and
IL is seen as using information
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The information technology
reflective approaches to the information literacy agenda” (p. 5). In addition
technology for information
conception
to a new name, Bruce also articulated a revised definition of information
literacy: “experiencing different ways of using information to learn” (p. 5).
retrieval and communication
The inclusion of the term “learn” is significant. Although this concept has
frequently The information sources conception IL is seen as finding information
2 been a part of many descriptions of information literacy (see
1974 statement by Paul Zurkwoski) it was only via the work by Bruce that
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The information process conception
learning has been articulated as central to the concept. IL is seen as executing process
Through relational perspective, Bruce introduced an evaluation
4 experience of information literacy to clarify the connection
of people’s The information control perception IL is seen as controlling
between the relational perspective of information literacy and
information learning:
“learning should be seen as qualitative change in a person’s way of
IL is seen as building up personal
The knowledge construction
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seeing, experiencing, understanding, conceptualizing something in the real
world – rather than a change in the amount of knowledge which someone
conception
knowledge base in a new area of
possesses” (Marton and Ramsden, 1988, cited in Bruce, 1997, p.60).
interest
Since 1997 there have been numerous studies conducted that have
adopted the relational perspective to investigate people’s experiences of
The knowledge extension
IL is seen as working with
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information literacy. Recent examples in the context of higher education have
knowledge and personal
conception
included, Maybee (2006) explored undergraduates students’ experiences
perspectives adopted in such a
of information literacy, Boon, Johnston and Webber (1997) examined
way that novel insights are
gained
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7 The wisdom conception IL is seen as using information
wisely for the benefit others