...Denise E. Agosto Purpose This paper aims to discuss the concept of “literacy” within the new literacy, new literacies and library and information science (LIS) discourses. It proposes widening the prevailing LIS conceptualization of adolescent literacy, which focuses largely on information...

... have tended to focus either on children – roughly defined as preschool age through elementary school age – or on adolescents – roughly defined as middle school age through high school age. Much of the youth information behaviors and practices work to date has been conducted in school settings, making...