Abstract:

Through content analysis method and case analysis method, this paper performs deep analysis on the digital ability of the “conceptual map” of digital literacy and explores the concrete practice of the digital literacy education of foreign universities libraries. It thinks that the university library should cultivate the students’ ability to use digital technology to collect, settle and share information, more cultivate the students’ critical thinking skill and consciousness of innovation of digital information. In the meantime, the university library should take precautionary measures of equipment and data, improve the students’ digital literacy eventually. Universities libraries in China should learn from the experience of digital literacy education of foreign universities, strengthen librarian’ digital literacy consciousness, adopt non-traditional teaching mode and pay attention to multilateral cooperation and boost the development of digital literacy education together.

Key words: digital literacy, digital ability, foreign university, university library