Information Literacy – a New Approach Supporting Teaching Skills Development Dr. Agnes Erich Faculty of Humanities, Valahia University of Targoviste E-mail: agnes_erich@yahoo.com Dr. Cristina Popescu Department of Information and Documentation Sciences Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest E-mail: cristinapopescu07@yahoo.fr Dr. Agnes Erich is associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities from the Valahia University of Targoviste and also the director of the Valahia University Library. She teaches courses on history of writing, book and printing, history of old Romanian literature, research methodology in the humanities. Her main research fields are old limited editions and e- learning. Dr. Cristina Popescu is associate professor at the Information and Documentation Sciences Department of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Bucharest. She teaches courses of biblioteconomy, bibliography and about the information flow in the research activity and is interested in studying the informational feed-back requested by the variety of services – both conventional and electronic – offered to the beneficiaries by the infodocumentary structures. Abstract Information literacy represents a determining factor in the development of the information society because a society based on lifelong training cannot be imagined without an adequate information literacy. In this sense, it becomes the primordial condition of the professionalism and success of the future specialist in 133