This paper discusses information literacy skills and procedures for breaking information resources into their component data. The paper draws on the work of two Australian committees to establish the importance of these skills and briefly describes a research project on library services required to support the delivery of competency-based training curriculum. Structures and strategies for breaking information into component parts and recombining those parts are identified, and a list of information competencies developed by Michael Marland is included. The concluding section suggests that librarians and teachers should work together to provide students with materials and activities that will enable them to develop information skills. Four charts that can be used for information retrieval are appended. (KRN)