Summary
The contemporary complex information environment, characterized by combination of analogue and digital sources, requires the higher education institutions to redefine their curriculums and adapt them to the acquisition of new skills that will enable individuals to find, evaluate and use information in an effective way. In order to achieve the mentioned qualities, it is necessary to change the existing educational practice. This is one of the key issues since it is not enough to simply change the content of learning – it is essential to introduce the new models of learning, i. e., active learning based on the introduction of information literacy into the entire educational system, which would involve all the participants in the process. This could be confirmed on the example of implementation of information literacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose developmental path, along with the difficulties that all those who have introduced information literacy into its educational system had undergone, has also its own specifics caused by historical and political issues that are reflected in the educational system of this country. In this regard, the aim of this paper is to present the development of information literacy at the University of Sarajevo, that is, to provide overview and analysis of the selected activities realised with the aim of introducing, promoting and improving information literacy at this University. By explaining the circumstances in which the concept of information literacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina academic community has come to life a little later than in the neighbouring countries, and by stressing the importance of designing the information literacy models that acknowledge the specific traditions and practices of its higher education institutions, this paper, among other things, deals with the Model of Pervading Components, created with the aim to meet the specific needs of the Bosnia and Herzegovina higher education environment. The paper also presents results of the research conducted by the University of Sarajevo in the framework of the project Developing Information Literacy for Lifelong Learning and Knowledge Economy in the Western Balkan Countries. The analysis will show how much has been achieved in the implementation of information literacy and will discover further steps that need to be done in order to bring the concept as a part of the teaching curriculum.

Keywords:
information literacy, informatics literacy, lifelong learning, Bologna Process, higher education, University of Sarajevo, Model of Pervading Components

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