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.

Editorial

En este número del Boletín Bibliotecas se recopilan cuatro artículos de distinguidas colegas que con su aporte enriquecen el quehacer de la Bibliotecología en diferentes ámbitos geográficos. La presentación de varios trabajos finales de graduación por alumnas de la Escuela de Bibliotecología, Documentación e Información para obtener el título de Licenciatura es un hecho que nos llena de mucho orgullo y satisfacción, principalmente por el esfuerzo personal y profesional que implica su culminación exitosa.