Summary
The most important actors in the information society, schools, universities, libraries, are faced with the paradoxes of a digital world: shallowness and velocity replace the wisdom and education, the growing quantity of information and various methods of rapid and easy access does not guarantee the quality and creativity of their use. The post-modern belief that all values are legitimate and that all the information and all the truths are easily available in digital form as a negative result has insufficient information literacy and the increasingly obvious lack of basic knowledge about the world we are living in. All individuals and institutions responsible for the direction and meaning of the digital revolution would have to jointly define the basic objectives of informatization and digitization. The new education strategy should enable each individual to: successfully communicate in his/her native language and to read and speak some of the foreign ones; read and understand any correctly written prose work, as well as various information and professional manuscripts; be mathematically literate; have the general knowledge of geography and history, know the political structure and culture of local surroundings and the state where he/she lives, but also those related to other regions and countries of the world; to have general knowledge of all arts, social and natural sciences and technology; to have at least one practical skill; to have a permanent desire for acquiring new ideas; to have a habit of critical approach to information; to know how to find information using both traditional and modern techniques of search; to know how to use information and communication technologies; to have a high level of social skills. The way in which modern technology and a common educational strategy of all subjects of the information society are going to respond to the challenges will demonstrate how much the information society is ready and able to truly transform into a knowledge society.

Keywords:
digitization, knowledge, libraries, postmodern culture, information society, social epistemology, library and information science education, information literacy, educational strategy

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