Purpose

The purpose of this study was to adapt and implement the Association of College and Research Library’s (ACRL’s) Research Competency Guidelines for Literatures in English for designing and employing a diagnostic survey about basic information literacy (IL) skills to study how 42 students were familiar with such skills. This 40-item survey included questions about students’ self-perception of their information skills and a test for evaluating their basic IL skills.

Design/methodology/approach

This research focused on integrating IL into a bachelor program in Spanish literature to identify the IL skills that students were familiar with and then determine if there was a relationship among their IL skills, their academic performance and their favorable conditions as students (have a good number of books at home, a personal computer, internet connection and proficiency in a second language).

Findings

The average number of correct answers ranged from regular to low; moreover, the authors compared self-perception results before and after the IL test, proving that such test negatively affected their self-perception. Students were mostly familiar with the skill of selecting information, and the inferential analysis showed that there were no notable relationships among either the IL test results and students’ academic performance or regarding their favorable conditions as students. This made evident the need of promoting ACRL’s Guidelines, particularly among literature professors, to raise awareness of their existence, as they are a useful starting point for designing contents and activities to develop IL.

Originality/value

Little research has been conducted about implementing IL in bachelor programs on literature to determine their information skills and behaviors in digital environments. Apart from grounding the research in specialized sources about research in such discipline, the authors have adapted ACRL’s Guidelines to develop a diagnostic survey that may be useful for professors in these areas and academic librarians in general. It might be useful for librarians to be familiar with the nuances of the results the authors gathered to provide better support for their users from the discipline of literature.

中文翻译：

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数字环境下西班牙文学学士学位学生信息素养的诊断

目的

本研究的目的是适应和实施大学和研究图书馆协会 (ACRL) 的英语文学研究能力指南，以设计和采用关于基本信息素养 (IL) 技能的诊断调查，以研究 42 名学生如何熟悉这样的技能。这个 40 项的调查包括关于学生对其信息技能的自我认知的问题以及评估他们的基本 IL 技能的测试。

设计/方法/方法

这项研究的重点是将 IL 整合到西班牙文学学士学位课程中，以确定学生熟悉的 IL 技能，然后确定他们的 IL 技能、他们的学业成绩和他们作为学生的有利条件之间是否存在关系（有很多家中的书籍、个人电脑、互联网连接和第二语言的熟练程度）。

发现

正确答案的平均数量从正常到低不等；此外，作者比较了IL测试前后的自我认知结果，证明这种测试对他们的自我认知产生了负面影响。学生大多熟悉选择信息的技能，推理分析表明IL测试结果与学生的学习成绩或他们作为学生的有利条件之间没有显着的关系。这表明需要推广 ACRL 的指南，特别是在文学教授中，以提高对其存在的认识，因为它们是设计内容和活动以发展 IL 的有用起点。

原创性/价值

关于在文学学士学位课程中实施 IL 以确定他们在数字环境中的信息技能和行为的研究很少。除了在有关此类学科研究的专业资源中进行研究外，作者还改编了 ACRL 的指南，以制定一项诊断调查，这可能对这些领域的教授和一般学术图书馆员有用。图书馆员熟悉作者收集的结果的细微差别可能会很有用，以便为文学学科的用户提供更好的支持。