ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the role of information literacy within the digital environment. The concept of information literacy predates the digital age' but, like other academic library resources and services, it has embraced the digital environment. Increasingly, information literacy skills are being taught and supported within the digital environment, whether it is through the use of online tutorials, virtual learning environments or blended learning. The digital environment presents many opportunities to develop students' information literacy skills and may be chosen to support distance learning, to provide 24/7 tuition, to make learning more interactive or simply because the course leader does not want to hand over much of their class time to the library. The digital environment has provided one of the biggest ways forward for the assessment of information literacy. Whether or not information literacy is developed and supported in the digital environment, librarians should always pay attention to the diverse learning styles of students.
