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The Behaviour in the process of search of information through information technology and communication: a case study on the students of the School of Librarianship in the State of Pará

It approaches the relationship between the behavior during the process of information seeking and Information Technology and Communication ( ICT ) , treated in an interdisciplinary perspective in the context of undergraduate Librarianship at the Federal University of Pará ( UFPA ) . This study aims to investigate how undergraduate students in Library hold their academic research by examining whether there is successful the results, focusing , in particular , access to academic texts , for reading and textual production of these students , who are in process vocational training . The methodology was as follows: the first with the literature , based on authors such as Kuhlthau ( 1991 , 1999 , 2004 and 2005 ) , Wilson ( 1997 , 1999 , 2000 and 2006 ) and covering contributions of other thinkers on the subject addressed . In the second step , we performed an exploratory and descriptive study of qualitative and quantitative approach with a questionnaire containing closed, open and hybrid questions . The results show that students generally have satisfactory performance in the information seeking process , therefore, perform the process of information retrieval in a proficient manner.

Information search; Information and Comunication Technologies; Library Science graduation students; Information Sources; Reading


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