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

Comportamiento informativo en Europa del Este en 2013-2022

“…The perceptions of study e-materials of students were compared to those of teachers and librarians (Vilar and Zabukovec, 2016). Other aspects of students" behaviour were personal information management in two different countries (Swigon, 2014), information grounds (Cisek et al, 2018), and digital information archiving of their personal materials (Marčetić, 2015;Krtalić et al, 2016), or the information habits of information system users of one university (Kudma et al, 2017). Despite being conducted on the easily available audiences, these studies help to identify some emerging features of information behaviour in the most dynamic and intensively using information groups and may usefully affect university and library service provision.…”

People and places: Bridging the information gaps in refugee integration

“…Exploring information grounds as part of understanding the sources of information in refugee integration will further enhance host societies' ability to make integration information available for all. The concept of information grounds has been expounded in numerous contexts, including Loudon, Buchanan, and Ruthven's (2016) importance of social support groups for first‐time mothers, Bronstein's (2017) benefits of social connections for domestic migrants, Cisek, Korycińska, and Krakowska's (2018) first‐year students awareness of information grounds, and Counts and Fisher's (2010) information grounds in digital technology age. Information grounds identified include ballparks, bike shops, friends, churches, schools, workplaces, medical clinics, hair salons, barber shops, day‐care centers, garages, book shops, and social service organizations, including radio stations, libraries (Fisher, Durrance, & Hinton, 2004; Fisher, Marcoux, Miller, Sánchez, & Cunningham, 2004; Lorenz, Kubalíková, Wölfelová, Vozárová, & Habartová, 2018), university campus disability centers (Williams & Smith, 2016), and English as a second or other language (ESOL) classes (Elmore, 2017).…”