Employ of Information Literacy by Students of Archivology of the University Federal of Bahia

• Autor(a) principal: Brandão, Gleise da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Borges, Jussara
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Ágora (Florianópolis. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://agora.emnuvens.com.br/ra/article/view/512
• topic: Information Literacy; Cognitive Processes; Students Archivology-UFBA; Employ of Information Literacy; Competência em informação; Processos cognitivos; Estudantes de Arquivologia-UFBA; Competência em informação dos estudantes de Arquivologia da UFBA

This article aims to investigate which information literacy are employed by Archivology graduate students of the University Federal of Bahia (UFBa) in digital environments, considering the cognitive processes involved. For the empirical study, it was adopted as a tool for data collection systematic observation, based on pre-established indicators and parameters for testing of. The analysis of data, comparative and observational methods have been adopted together the statistical procedures used secondarily. The results indicate that students have the competence studied, but were identified some shortcomings to use it in digital media, especially regarding the production and writing texts, organization of retrieved information and identification or selection of relevant information. Before making such a determination, it is concluded that the development of information literacy in academic repercussions and therefore it is necessary to raise the level of preparedness of students to meet the demands and requirements directed to the work of contemporary archivist.