随着信息社会的发展,信息资源已与公众的日常生活发生了密切的联系。提高公众的信息素质已显得非常紧迫。而社区图书馆在提高公众的信息素质方面具有独特的优势。文章阐述了信息素质的基本概念及特性,分析了我国公众信息素质的基本状况及社区图书馆开展公众信息素质教育的优势,提出了社区图书馆向公众提供信息素质教育应采取的措施。 With the development of information society, information resources have been closely linked with the daily life of the public. Improve the public’s information quality has become very urgent. Community libraries have unique advantages in improving the public’s information literacy. The article expounds the basic concepts and characteristics of information literacy, analyzes the basic status of public information literacy in our country and the advantages of community libraries in carrying out public information literacy education, and puts forward the measures that community libraries should take to provide information literacy education to the public.