INFORMATION LITERACY COMPETENCE OF ELEMENTARY
INFORMATION LITERACY COMPETENCE OF ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL TEACHER-LIBRARIANS
Andri Yanto1, Agus Rusmana2, Tine Silvana Rachmawati3, Dian Sinaga4, Rully Khairul
Anwar5
One of the keys in building environment is the role of the school librarian in
making the literacy program which begins with library instruction and
making the library as the center of the literacy movement in schools.
Therefore, it needed a training to enhance the information literacy
competence. The objectives of this study is to explore the information literacy
competence which gained through a training. The hypothesis was “there is no
difference in the average number of information literacy comptence before
and after training”. The research method used was pre-experimental design
with one type of Pretest-Posttest group. The value of the influence of the
treatment can be known more accurately by comparing the pre-test with post-
test results. The sample in this study is selected using a purposive sampling
technique as much as 17 teacher librarians from various primary schools in
Jatinangor. The result showed that the there were differences in the average
scores for knowledge with before and after training with a mean score
increase of 5.59 to 6.29. It showed that the training increased knowledge and
information literacy competence. Confirming the results of the hypothesis H1,
there is a difference in the average number of information literacy ability
before and after training.
Keywords: Information Literacy, Teacher Librarian, Library Program