Open AccessInformation Literacy and the Education of School Librarians
Author(s) -
Bernadete dos Santos Campello,
Vera Lúcia Furst Gonçalves Abreu
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
school libraries worldwide
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2816-3788
pISSN - 1023-9391
DOI - 10.29173/slw6956
Subject(s) - information literacy , information seeking , feeling , scientific literacy , psychology , information behavior , process (computing) , information science , pedagogy , mathematics education , science education , computer science , library science , social psychology , operating system
The aim of this article is to gain a better understanding of information literacy as it is put into practice by library science students in Brazil. It shows how library science students accomplish tasks assigned by their professors and is based on Kuhlthau's studies on the process of information-seeking. An attempt was made to identify skills, attitudes, and knowledge related to the development of the various stages of the process. In addition, aspects that did not fit into these patterns were observed. Responses were analyzed to identify patterns of feelings, attitudes, and actions described by the respondents, and results were compared with Kuhlthau's model.