Abstract: The aim of this article is to gain a better understanding of information literacy as it is put into pratice by library science students in Brazil. It shows how library science students accomplish tasks assigned by their professors and is based on Kuhlthaus's studies on the process of information-seeking. An attempt was made to identify skills, attidutes, and knowledge related to the development of the various stages of the process. In addition, aspects that did not fit into these patterns were observed. Responses were analyzed to identify patterns of feelings, attidutes, and actions described by the respondents, and results were compared with Kulhthaus´s model.