Information Literacy as a Right and a Duty: The Experience of the Czech Republic

The aim of this paper is to briefly review the strategic steps which have been taken in the area of education for information literacy (IL) in the Czech Republic - focusing mainly on the higher education level, but with additional references and applications to lower educational levels as well. The paper also aims to look a bit deeply into the broader, fundamental "right to literacy," in relation to human rights and public duties in general, and which are very often guaranteed by national constitutions, such as the right to education, the right to access (public) information, and the (public) duty to protect weaker parties in certain kinds of legal negotiations in countries such as the Czech Republic.