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An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis on University Members’ Information Needs and Behaviors

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2020, 54(2), pp.269-297
  • DOI : 10.4275/KSLIS.2020.54.2.269
  • Publisher : 한국문헌정보학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : May 7, 2020
  • Accepted : May 25, 2020
  • Published : May 31, 2020

Yoonkyung Min 1 GIYEONG KIM 1 Jeeyeon Lee 1 Hyeyoung Kim 1 Seo JungSun 1 leegoeun 1 Nari Lee 2 Minji Jung 1 HYUN SOO CHAE 1

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to understand the information needs and behaviors of university members given the societal shifts incited by the fourth industrial revolution as well as the changes in university research and education. We first conducted several in-depth interviews with diverse university members, and then adopted interpretative phenomenological analysis(IPA) to search the university members’ information needs and behaviors including the contexts for such needs. The interviewees demonstrated more complex and convergent information needs than traditional information needs. They had very individualized information needs according their particular situations and took integrated problem-solving methods through their personal networks and/or making their own communities. When the interviewees’ information needs were not satisfied by libraries, they tended to show low awareness of the libraries.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.