Academic Libraries and Information Literacy - Faculty of Criminal Justice Sciences Model

Abstract

New paradigm of learning implicated by the information society and knowledge society is presented in the thesis. This necessarily causes changes in the work of the university libraries and makes the introduction of the subject "Information literacy" in the curriculum necessary. "Information literacy" should be organized as compulsory two-semester subject on the second year of study as the latest in order to educate students for independent access to the information, their search and evaluation. Only librarians as information specialists are competent to perform this kind of education. Model of library user education of the Faculty of Criminal Justice Sciences created is presented as well.