Resumen de Information Grounds in the Eyes of the First-Year Information Management Students
Sabina Cisek, Paloma Korycińska, Monika Krakowska
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.
