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The Educational Role of Libraries in the Digital Age Among the High School and University Student in Slavonski Brod and Osijek



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Tihana Lubina, Ivana Brkic Klimpak

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2014.11.005

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia Elementary School “Antun Mihanovic” Slavonski Brod, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

A society of knowledge has a mission based on information dissemination and its usage, but its purpose cannot be completely realized without library as an institution that collects, processes, archives, protects and provides library collections to the public. Elementary- and high-school libraries, as well as the academic ones, are ubiquitous as associates and promoters of importance of information in the Digital Age. Information literacy becomes a foundation of an individual’s literacy in general and leads him/her toward lifelong learning that becomes a philosophy on the way to a society of knowledge. The paper presents research results of informatics and information literacy among students with a purpose of improving the library mission and vision within future education. Data were collected by poll and the pollees were high-school and university students of Slavonski Brod and Osijek. This study found that although the trend of Internet usage in a library is not high, the percentage of those possessing a basic Information and Communication Technology (ICT) literacy level is high. Another significant fact is that the number of those unskilled in ICT usage (online database and catalog search) is high which represents a challenge to the libraries and ICT experts who are the incumbents of great responsibility.

society of knowledge, libraries in education, Digital Age, information literacy, library users