Competências Informacionais dos Alunos dos Cursos a Distância da UNOPAR no Uso da Biblioteca Digital

Abstract

This study about the information literacy of students from distance courses of UNOPAR in has the main characteristic of availability of a big flow of information through the technologies and information, it verifies that this information needs to be identified, advised and assimilated in such a way to contribute with the learning process of students. Situating, in this scene, the function of digital libraries in the organization of information with the concern in turning great the technological and human resources in a fast and efficient way reaching a high number of users at the same time. It highlights, however, the important function of digital libraries, considered essential tools in distance courses, to permit the availability of information and its assimilation, changing it in the new knowledges and contributing to the development of abilities and necessary competences to the autonomous learner also, independent and responsible. Its goal is to observe if the students of distance course offered by UNOPAR, when using the Digital Library, develop these competences, using the standarts of informative competence (information literacy) presented by American Library Association, available in literature to evaluate manage and use the available information in digital objects which compose the collection of this library. The research characterizes itself as an explore study, using sample which can be considered non-probabilistic, accidental or arbitrary in the choice of its answers in the universe of enrolled students, once they were considered, as an effect of data analyse just the answered questionnaires among those which where sent to all the population of students in the Connected Presence Learning System of UNOPAR. The collection of data was accomplished using a questionnaire, available in a web site of restricted access to the student giving him/her guarantee that his/her identity is not going to be identified at any time of collecting data process, protecting in this way the secrecy of his/her answers and his/her anonymity. The approach of analyse was qualitative and quantitative. The results of studies permit to claim that the students demonstrated a development in informative competences established in the 22 constant indicators from 5 proposed standarts by ALA in the literature of area about information literary.