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Information (il)literacy : researching young library users in Vukovar
Anita Baier Jakovac
orcid.org/0000-0002-0528-5186
; Gradska knjižnica Vukovar
Ivana Hebrang Grgić
orcid.org/0000-0001-6709-9939
; Sveučilište u Zagrebu Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za infomacijske ir komunikacijske znanosti
Abstract
Information literacy includes certain critical opinion. Young people today are the members of so called Google Generation and their communication has been transfered to the screens of the smartphones, tablets and computers, However, searching information for personal or school related informing is shortly, with low criticality and without any special criteria for evaluating of what has been found. Although they are quite computer literate, the general opinion is that youth today are actually information illiterate. That was the main presumption in the degree report research conducted through anonymous questionnaire in May, 2013 among pupils in the 7th and 8th grades in primary schools and 1st and 2nd grades in secondary schools in Vukovar. All together, 452 pupils have been questioned, 257 pupils from primary schools and 195 from secondary schools. The main purpose was to research the knowledge of digital library collections and educational resources in Croatia and the world and the ways of using them among young people.
Keywords
youth, Google generation, information literacy, information resources, digital resources
Hrčak ID:
239656
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Publication date:
22.2.2016.
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