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A Study of the Effectiveness of Academic Library User Education on Users' Information Literacy

  • Journal of the Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2004, 15(1), pp.243-260
  • Publisher : Journal Of The Korean Biblia Society For Library And Information Science
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Yoo,Jae-Ok 1

1덕성여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study investigated whether academic library user education contributes to promote users'information literacy. 39 students of Duksung Women's University participated voluntarily for this experiment. A test questions set about locating specific library materials was delivered to participating students, who were to find right answers for each test question. Their answers about test questions were measured in terms of success rate, time used to solve each problem. Self evaluation scores were also collected before and after giving them user education.Academic library user education significantly contributed participating students' ability to locate academic library materials through a library user interface. After receiving user education students were able to solve more successfully test questions, use less time for each question, and evaluate themselves more highly in terms of information utilizing ability. The effectiveness of the academic library user education was lasted for about 8 weeks after the education they received

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