[Purpose/significance] Information literacy, critical thinking and creativity are the core skills of cultivation
of innovative talents. Integrating critical thinking into the education system of information literacy is a vital strategy to
improve university students' innovation capability and break through the bottleneck of information literacy education.
[Method/process] From the perspective of requirements and cultivating process of critical thinking training in informa ?
tion literacy education, the paper sorts out the cultivation mode of critical thinking in information literacy education of
foreign university libraries though literature research and websites research. [Result/conclusion] Drawing on the prac ?
tical experience of cultivating critical thinking in the information literacy education of 11foreign academic libraries,
and combining China’s strategy of the innovative talents and the present situation of information literacy education in
university libraries, the paper puts forward the following optimizing paths for the critical thinking cultivation of informa?
tion literacy education in China ’s university libraries: establish a long-term evaluation mechanism and training mode
for critical thinking cultivation, use foreign mature cultivation mode and experience as reference, as well as improve
critical thinking and techniques of educators.