A literacia da informação e o contributo da biblioteca universitária

Information literacy is a set of skills that allows recognizing the need for information and acting efficiently to meet this need, obtaining information, evaluating and reviewing the research process. This set of skills is of particular importance for engineering and technology higher education students since they have to access multiple sources of information in various media and formats, with content evolving quickly and sometimes with a short lifetime. Taking from the rules of the ALA "Information literacy standards for science and technology", and other directives on information literacy in higher education we made an observation of a group of undergraduate students, in preparation of the draft final course. This is an attempt to understand the level of literacy that these students have, and their use of information resources