Information Literacy Profiles of University Students

This chapter introduces information literacy profiles. Drawing on discursive semiotics, it argues that an analysis of the logical relations between subjects enables one to observe informationally competent subjects at the level of the potentiative mode from the standpoint of the collector, the verifier, and the reflective. The chapter reports examples where attachments and beliefs shape varied ways of relating to information, which leads to the drawing of profiles. These relationships are identifiable in the lives of the subjects in formal and non-formal contexts of education that include, for example, secondary education, family context, higher education, and the labor context.