Alfabetización informacional en los estudiantes de la carrera bibliotecología, documentación y archivo de la facultad de ciencias humanísticas y sociales de la universidad técnica de Manabí - Ecuador.

Abstract

The information literacy of university students is an urgent need (necessary and urgent). This article presents the results of research on information literacy in students of the Librarianship, Documentation and Archive career at the Universidad Técnica de Manabí (UTM) -Ecuador. The objective is to know the degree of information literacy of the students of the first, second and third semesters of the career. A descriptive study was carried out with a quantitative approach, a documentary research was carried out to analyze the contributions that various researchers have made on the subject. The population that was taken to carry out the article

was 303 students. The sample of 110 students was intentionally identified, so a non- probabilistic statistical calculation was performed, since the selection of students corresponds

to those who answered the survey. With the results obtained in the research, the high degree (75%) of information literacy of the students of the first, second and third semesters of the UTM library, documentation and archive career is demonstrated.