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Information literacy of students

This paper presents the results of a study on the understanding of the term information literacy of primary and secondary school students, from the fifth grade of elementary school to the fourth year of high school at the local level, and who are members of the City Library in Imotski.The study examined 98 members of the City Library, through a questionnaire with a total of 25 questions. The selected sample consists of primary and secondary school students, members of the City Library.The main objectives of our study were: to investigate, analyze and determine how many students are information literate. That is, if students at the age of eleven to eighteen years understand the concept of information literacy in the right way. According to Špiranec and Banek (2008), one of the most prominent definitions on IL comes from ALA which stated that information literate persons are defined as: those who have learned how to learn because they know how knowledge is organized, how to find information and how to use them in a completely understandable way.Many students, in fact, in the aforementioned age category confuse the concepts of information and computer literacy, thinking if they use a computer that they are automatically information literate. In doing so, they do not know the concepts such as Boolean operators and Google Scholar. Pupils' lack of understanding of the term information literacy leads them astray and even opens a new topic on the dangers of (un)awareness with which students often encounter on the Internet because of ignorance.Since the misunderstanding of information literacy among students is present in the increased percentage, a measure is proposed of ongoing professional development of students in the spirit of the European concept of education. In this sense, in the local context of Imotski where our study was conducted, the ongoing information education in schools should be improved.An important determinant of new educational programs should be aforming of a council for education on the level of primary and secondary schools in Imotski that would take care of the ongoing education and training of students primarily, but also teachers and librarians-key holder of theeducational system changes. References Špiranec, S. Banek-Zorica, M. (2008).Informacijska pismenost teorijski okviri i polazišta (Information literacy: theoretical framework and starting points), Zagreb: Department of Information Studies.

Information literacy; virtual reality; students .

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