Sense-Making and Synchronicity: Information-Seeking Behaviors of Millennials and Baby Boomers

Connaway, Lynn Silipigni; Radford, Marie L.; Dickey, Timothy J.; Williams, Jocelyn De Angelis; Confer, Patrick A.

doi:10.1515/libr.2008.014

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“…Some of the authors mentioned identify a number of features of this generation (Oblinger & Oblinger, 2005;Dede, 2005;Connaway et al, 2008;Barnes, Marateo, & Ferris, 2007): being digitally literate (using technology, communication tools, or networks to search and create information), being continuously connected, and showing a need for immediacy in receiving information, preferring social activities, being active experiential learners together with showing a capacity to carry out several tasks simultaneously, and being involved in the community.…”

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Do UOC students fit in the Net Generation profile? An approach to their habits in ICT use

Carbonell

Catasús

Sangrà

et al. 2013

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Some authors have stated that university students born after 1982 have been profoundly influenced by digital technologies, showing different characteristics when compared to previous generations. However, it is worth asking if that is a current observable phenomenon. Are those students born after the 80s really more familiar with ICT tools than those born in previous generations? Do they show different study habits and learning paths? Different research lines (Kennedy, et al., 2010;Bennett, Maton, & Kervin, 2008; Gros, García, & Escofet, 2012) highlight that scientific data is rarely used when discussing this generation's characteristics; however, none of them have proved in statistical terms that college students do not fit in the Net Generation characteristics and that their habits of ICT use in social and professional activities do not differ from older generations. The international research project, Digital Learners in Higher Education, seeks to develop a sophisticated and evidence-based understanding of university learners in different institutional contexts and the perception of cultures in their use of technology in a social and educational context. Data has been collected from four institutions in Canada and Spain: the British Columbia Institute of Technology, the University of Regina, the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), and the University Rovira i Virgili. In order to develop this project, we used a multi-case study embedded design (Yin, 2009). The UOC's case is deeply analysed in this paper to affirm that the Net Generation is more speculative than real and that includes students' perception about this phenomenon, and guidelines are proposed in an eLearning context.

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Do UOC students fit in the Net Generation profile? An approach to their habits in ICT use

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“…Multiyear Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded research projects I have been involved in have found that virtual reference services (VRS) are underutilized, mainly because people do not know they exist. 2 Pew results clearly reflect the widespread idea that people equate libraries with print books ("tree books" as opposed to "ebooks"). As Rainie noted, librarians have endeavored to rebrand libraries as technology hubs, being most successful with young adults, although Connaway and Dickey found that strong, traditional associations of libraries with books remains the prevalent view.…”

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The Myth and the Reality of the Evolving Patron

Mintz¹,

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Ford³

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“…For example, Spink et al (1999) explored everyday life information seeking by low-income African-American households in Texas;Fischer et al (2004) examined the role of interpersonal sources and information grounds among Hispanic farm workers in the Pacific Northwest; and Agada (1999) and Metoyer-Duran (1991) studied information use environments and information-seeking behaviour of gatekeepers. While on one hand some researchers focused on children, adolescents and students in multi-ethnic communities and their information practices (Walter 1994;Chu 1999;Jeong 2004;Silvio 2006;Henefer 2007;); on the other hand some focused on the ethnic senior citizens (Rait 1989;Su and Conway 1995;Connaway et al 2008;Errikson-Backa 2010); and some on impact of information and communication technology on information-related behaviour of minority groups (Spooner and Rainie 2001;Srinivasan and Pyati 2007). An increasing number of researchers looks into health information seeking practices, as influenced by membership in racial and ethnic groups (Hsia 1987;Freimuth, Edgar, and Fitzpatrick 1993;O'Malley, Kerner, and Johnson 1999;Matthews et al 2002;Kim and Kwon 2009).…”

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Public Libraries and Linguistic Diversity: A Small Scale Study on the Slovak Ethnic Minority in Eastern Croatia

Tanacković¹,

Lacović²,

Stanarević³

2012

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One of the key missions of the twenty-first century public library is to foster inter-cultural dialogue and favour cultural diversity by reaching out to all members of the local community, especially multicultural populations. This paper will present a fragment of the data gathered in a multi-phase exploratory study whose aim was to survey the multicultural services of Croatian public libraries and collect and analyze data about information needs and behaviour of longestablished national minorities in this country, and measure the level of their satisfaction with the library services. This paper focuses on the Slovak national minority in Osijek-Baranya County, their information needs and perceptions of libraries as a source of everyday information and reading material in their mother tongue. Data was gathered with the help of quantitative methodology. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed through Slovak cultural associations and the Central Library for the Slovak Minority. A total of 112 questionnaires were returned, making a response of 56%. Because 2,155 members of this national minority are registered in this region the study covered ca. 5% of the whole population. Descriptive statistics and variant analysis were used to analyze data. The study has confirmed that respondents, members of the long-established Slovak national minority in Osijek-Baranya County, have the need for diverse information and reading material in their mother tongue: only 8.9% said that they do not need information resources in Slovak. As expected, the large majority indicated that they need these materials to stay in touch with their cultural and linguistic heritage (79.5%). Also, results showed that only 24.1% respondents use the public library as a source of information and reading material in Slovak, following newspapers and magazines (67.9%), Slovak cultural associations (63.4%), personal contact (54.5%) and the Internet (42%). The importance of this research lies in its implications for development of library services to multicultural communities in Croatia as well as offering suggestions for improving the collection building in Croatian public libraries, in particular regarding material in languages and scripts of long-established minorities. Authors also hope that this study will encourage librarians in Croatia to systematically collect and analyse information about their local community minorities, especially their library and information needs.

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Sense-Making and Synchronicity: Information-Seeking Behaviors of Millennials and Baby Boomers

Cited by 52 publications

References 21 publications

Do UOC students fit in the Net Generation profile? An approach to their habits in ICT use

Do UOC students fit in the Net Generation profile? An approach to their habits in ICT use

The Myth and the Reality of the Evolving Patron

Public Libraries and Linguistic Diversity: A Small Scale Study on the Slovak Ethnic Minority in Eastern Croatia

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