This study aims to analyse the information literacy movement, which started in the United States in the seventies. That movement represents the effort the American library profession is doing in order to get more visibility in the educational community. Its appearance occurred in peculiar circumstances, along with changes in the librarian teaching role concerning bibliographic instruction. The discourse of the information literacy movement evolves around the following aspects: the information society, constructivist perspective of education, information technology and the librarian. Considering the word is coming into view in the Brazilian literature on library and information science this article suggests the establishment of a research program towards our reality in an attempt to integrate information literacy in the education field.
Information literacy; User education; School library
