aiga grenina
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Prezentacja z III Międzynarodowej Konferencji "Kultura czytelnicza młodego pokolenia", Łódź 16-17 października 2014TRANSCRIPT
Reading culture of the young generation 2014, Lodz,16 X 2014
Teenagers’ perception of
contemporary library
Ph.D. Candidate Aiga Grenina, University of Latvia
Reading culture of the young generation 2014, Lodz,16 X 2014
Contents of Presentation
Background
Methodological issues
Results
Conclusion
Reading culture of the young generation 2014, Lodz,16 X 2014
The role of libraries in modern society
Libraries as:
information providers;
cultural centres;
social space;
facilitators of learning.
Teenagers:
future adult users of libraries;
characterised as one of the most susceptible to the risk of abandoning library services.
Reading culture of the young generation 2014, Lodz,16 X 2014
Methodological issues
Questionnaire:
-one open-ended question
„In your opinion, what a modern library should be like?”
Data processing:
-qualitative content analysis, constant comparison,qualitative data analysis software NVivo 10
Reading culture of the young generation 2014, Lodz,16 X 2014
A socio-demographic profile of respondents (%; n=61)
Results
Reading culture of the young generation 2014, Lodz,16 X 2014
The main categories
Reading culture of the young generation 2014, Lodz,16 X 2014
Library and Technologies48 teenagers (29 girls and 19 boys)
Reading culture of the young generation 2014, Lodz,16 X 2014
Information Resources48 teenagers (22 girls and 26 boys)
Premises, 39 teenagers (18 girls and 21 boys)
Reading culture of the young generation 2014, Lodz,16 X 2014
General Description19 teenagers (9 girls and 10 boys)
Reading culture of the young generation 2014, Lodz,16 X 2014
User-friendly Staff11 teenagers (4 girls and 7 boys)
Staff = librarians, employers, consultants, workers or those providing library services
Characteristics: responsive, clever, educated, helpful, nice, well-informed, friendly, able to provide information about the respective encyclopaedia or book, polite, acceptable, understanding and knowledgeable
Conclusion
The main associations:
-technologies (Internet access and the availability of one or several computers at the library premises);-information resources (books).
Premises of a library are also important:-comfort;-an easy-to-understand layout;-necessity of a reading room.
LIS practioners and teenagers have a different perception of a modern library.
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