Information Literacy in Costa Rican Universities. Viewing Levels of Incorporation from the Information Published on the Websites of their Libraries

Training in information competencies or information literacy is one of the current challenges of university libraries at the possibilities of access to vast information resources that facilitate digital media, which require a better understand and apply the selection and assessment criteria to retrieval the highest quality and relevance of information as needed. In this situation, Ibero-American university libraries (Latin-America, Spain and Portugal) have been slowly incorporating this training either from direct training programs, offered from the library or through collaborative work with teachers and schools in curricula of various universities as a whole or in specific disciplines. In this text, it was identified that, at present, from the information displayed on Web sites of universities-HEI in Costa Rica, a very small percentage of university libraries would find taking actions in a level 1 or 2 of incorporating information literacy, since a large most developed is still very focused programs and processes to the traditional user training, while another large majority, unfortunately, has no action-information about actions from the forming perspective that should be any library.

La formación en competencias informacionales o Alfabetización Informacional es uno de los retos actuales de las bibliotecas. En especial, si se considera la necesidad de contar con criterios ante las posibilidades de acceso a enormes recursos de información, facilitados por los medios digitales. Las bibliotecas universitarias han incorporado, poco a poco, esta formación, bien sea mediante programas-cursos directos o la revisión plena de las currículas por medio del trabajo colaborativo con docentes y especialistas de las distintas universidades.En la actualidad, según la información consignada en los sitios web de las universidades-IES de Costa Rica, un porcentaje muy reducido de bibliotecas universitarias se encontraría realizando acciones de niveles 1 o 2 de incorporación a ALFIN. La mayoría se encuentra aún desarrollando programas y procesos enfocados a la formación tradicional de usuarios, mientras que otra parte, desafortunadamente, no realiza ninguna acción-información de perspectiva formadora.