Information literacy among students of the Department of Library Science and Documentation at the University of Algiers 2: a case study

Abstract

Information literacy is an element of the digital culture that connects us to the digital world, so university students find themselves facing great challenges in order to develop their scientific knowledge and improve their skills to control information and ways to access and retrieve it and the possibility of evaluating it, which creates a degree of information literacy for these groups, especially if it comes to a digital environment, so we tried by addressing this topic to highlight the role and importance of information literacy in the university academic environment, by conducting a case study on stage students The final master's degree, Department of Library Science and Documentation, University of Algiers 2, which relates to various disciplines, whether in the field of archives, technology, processing and management of information, the extent of information literacy for this category, in the process of controlling research skills and techniques, and the effectiveness of scientific communication in acquiring digital culture.