<P> The phrase information literacy first appeared in print in a 1974 report written on behalf of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science by Paul G. Zurkowski , who was at the time president of the Information Industry Association . Zurkowski used the phrase to describe the `` techniques and skills '' learned by the information literate `` for utilizing the wide range of information tools as well as primary sources in molding information solutions to their problems '' and drew a relatively firm line between the `` literates '' and `` information illiterates '' . </P>
who started using the term information literacy and when was it coined
Paul G. Zurkowski 1974