This study aims to understand the information behaviours of youth seeking health information on mobile devices and to explore differences by prior knowledge, gender and grade level. A survey was conducted in two high schools in Osijek, Croatia. Results indicate that among the total 408 participants, 84.3% reported having used mobile devices for health information and 54.7% reported having used applications for health information. Students seek health information about physical activity and eating issues/nutrition mostly on mobile devices. Students with more prior medical knowledge tend to have more information needs, perceive mobile devices as more beneficial, search health information and use health-related applications more frequently, and consider the tracking/recording/monitoring feature of applications more useful. Students with less prior medical knowledge tend to consider the video feature of applications more useful. Students rely heavily on searching health topics in search engines on mobile devices, rather than browsing or using applications. This study provides implications to better assist young people in using mobile devices and applications to manage their health issues.

Background: Understanding the health information needs of adolescents is the first step towards providing them with relevant information to aid them in their decision making regarding health issues. Objective: The goal of this study is to assess adolescents' needs, perceptions and sources of health information. Methods: Four hundred sixty-nine high school students in Osijek, Croatia, participated in this study by answering a questionnaire. The collected data were analysed using basic frequency and non-parametric statistical methods. Results: The most popular health topics identified by adolescents in our study were nutrition, diseases, depression, relationships, sexual intercourse and alcohol.Adolescents consider their parents the most reliable personal source of health information (72.0%), while they perceive the Internet as the main non-personal source of health information (29.8%). Adolescents wish to get more education about health issues at school (54.4%). Significant gender differences were found in adolescents' needs, perceptions and sources of health information. Conclusions: It is important to provide adolescents with systematic institutional health education and improve health advisory services and library/information services to assist adolescents in locating health information and resolving their health related questions.

Early literacy has recently become a current topic, and there’s a widespread belief that literacy startsdeveloping almost as soon as the child is born, if the child is surrounded with adequate materials and persons who will motivate the development of literacy. The first structured reading materials that a child interacts with are picture-books. It is usually the first contact a child has with literature and a written word in general, and it happens during childhood, the child's most sensitive period, which is why it is important to pay special attention to the quality of picture-books. Croatian picture-books published till the early 80ies of the past century have been investigated to a some extent. However, the picture-books found on the Croatian market and in the libraries in the past 30 years have been the subject of research only sporadically. There's little data on the quality and features of this multifunctional material that is of such great importance for children. The aim of the paper is to give an overview of the relevant data found in literature on the historical development of picture-book publishing, their features, functions they help develop, their age-appropriateness, and quality. The paper presents research results stemming from the analysis of the Croatian Children's Book Centre documentation on contemporary picture-book publishing and data on the language of picture-books that are the result of a picture-book corpus study made as part of the PhD research by the author. The data on contemporary authors and illustrators was obtained by analysing the documentation of the Croatian Library Association, Commission for library services for children and youth. The language of the picture-book corpus was analysed using a computer programme, i.e. the analysis was conducted of the lexical diversity of picture-books for three-year olds. The picture-books have not been investigated from the linguistic perspective before, which makes this research innovative. The findings and results of this research can be applicable in picture-book publishing, first of all in changing the attitude of publishers, i.e. their approach to age-appropriateness and quality of picture-books. The aim of the paper is to give on overview of the picture-book situation, trying to raise awareness of the importance of their quality and potential, and spark off further picture-book research in different fields of arts and sciences. Thus, this paper will have an indirect practical value that may affect the current practice.

Rad se sa jedne strane bavi istraživa­njem tipologija objekata mešovite namene, njegovim impaktima na život ljudi i životnu okolinu. Sa druge strane, rad se bavi projektnim rešenjem objekta mešovite namene u samom centru Novog Sada, koji za cilj ima podizanje kvaliteta života na viši nivo, podizanje ekološke svesti i uticaj na poboljšanje i razvoj gradskih tkiva i načina života. U datoj strukturi, uz primaran program stanovanja, bilo je neophodno isprojektovati i uklopiti druge sadržaje prilagođene potrebama grada Novog Sada i njegovog stanovništva.

Cilj je ovog rada odrediti informacijske potrebe i ponašanje učenika i učenica pri traženju zdravstvenih informacija. Metodologija. U istraživanje je uključeno 255 učenika prvog i četvrtog razreda I. gimnazije u Osijeku. Istraživanje je provedeno metodom anketiranja tijekom rujna i listopada 2016. godine. Ovo istraživanje dio je znanstveno-istraživačkog projekta Sveučilišta Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku pod nazivom Istraživanje informacijskog ponašanja mladih pri pretraživanju informacija za zdravlje na mobilnim uređajima. Rezultati. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da učenice i učenici I. gimnazije u Osijeku pokazuju interes za mnoge zdravstvene teme. Učenici jednako kao i učenice u posljednjih šest mjeseci imali su potrebu za različitim zdravstvenim informacijama. Učenici i učenice zdravstvenu informaciju smatraju vrlo važnom, a majka je prvi izvor kojem se obraćaju kad traže zdravstvenu informaciju. Vrlo često zdravstvene informacije učenici i učenice traže na internetu. Učenice i učenici izjašnjavaju se da bi više informacija o zdravstveni temama htjeli dobiti u školi te da bi voljeli na raspolaganju imati stručne osobe kojima bi se osobno ili na druge načine besplatno mogli obratiti kad prepoznaju svoju zdravstvenu informacijsku potrebu. Originalnost/Vrijednost. Originalnost ovoga rada ogleda se u činjenici što je prvo istraživanje u okviru informacijskih znanosti u Republici Hrvatskoj koje se bavi zdravstvenim informacijskim potrebama i ponašanjem mladih. Vrijednost rada očituje se u pružanju uvida u informacijsko ponašanje mladih. Praktična primjena. Rezultati mogu poslužiti kao podloga za oblikovanje nastavnih predmeta koji će uključivati zdravstvene teme. Nadalje, rezultati mogu poslužiti kao smjerokaz oblikovanju i unaprjeđenju usluga savjetodavnih službi za mlade. Rezultati istraživanja mogu također poslužiti kao smjernice za unaprjeđenje informacijskih službi i usluga namijenjenih mladima. Ograničenja. U okviru ovoga rada istraživanje je provedeno na relativno malom uzorku te su generalizacije o temi zdravstvenog informacijskog ponašanja mladih onemogućene. Kako bi se dobio detaljniji uvid u informacijske potrebe i ponašanje mladih u Republici Hrvatskoj, potrebni su rezultati prikupljeni istraživanjem na većem uzorku ili na nacionalnoj razini.