Today's students, especially in distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly rely on the Web to fulfill their lecture information needs. At the same time, students unwittingly lack the critical thinking skills needed to evaluate the credibility of information as an important aspect of information literacy. Furthermore, based on observations it was found that students tend to rarely search for information online through digital library databases, students tend to use general search engines to meet their information needs. This study uses an online survey designed to explore the relationship between critical evaluation of online information, as an important element of information literacy in distance learning. This study describes the information literacy competence of library and information science students who were active in distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic at two different universities. In general, the results of the study show that half of the total sample applies information literacy skills during online lectures on practical assignments. Students tend to search for information quickly but have not utilized the information search strategies and sources of information learned during the Information Literacy course. Therefore, information literacy skills must becombined with their application in other courses, especially those with practicumcourses