This third edition of the "Essentials of Information Skills" has being enlarged, with an extensive research done to cover some aspects of the current issues in the literacy education, the teaching and learning of the information skills, the library and librarianship, as they are operated in today's information technology age. It is designed for students, library technicians, teachers and librarians. The focus is not just about library and its holdings, it is about creating a total literate competent person.