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