Information Grounds in the Eyes of the First-Year Information Management Students

• Sabina Cisek ^[1] ; Paloma Korycińska ^[1] ; Monika Krakowska ^[1]
  1. [1] Jagiellonian University

     Jagiellonian University

     Kraków, Polonia

     
• Localización: Information Literacy in the Workplace / Serap Kurbanoğlu (ed. lit.), Joumana Boustany (ed. lit.), Sonja Špiranec (ed. lit.), Esther S. Grassian (ed. lit.), Diane Mizrachi (ed. lit.), Loriene Roy (ed. lit.), 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-74333-2, págs. 535-544
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The main purpose of this paper has been to discover how novice information management students perceive “their” information grounds, that is places/social settings in which people seek and share information while being involved in a focal activity. The ability to comprehend one’s own information behavior, including the identification and interpretation of “encountered” or “visited” information grounds, serves as a basis for, inter alia, the development of one’s information culture and literacy, which is particularly important for future information professionals/scientists. The reported research is empirical and exploratory in nature, based on a text analysis method. The sample included 67 first-year information management students of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. The following outcomes have been confirmed: (1) students are generally able to identify different information grounds following Fisher’s trichotomy of places, people, and information-related phenomena; (2) the concept of information grounds seems to be a good starting point for teaching information behavior theories.