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The Effects of Online User Instruction on Information Literacy Ability: Suggestions for COVID-19 Era

코로나 시대의 온라인 도서관 이용교육이 정보활용능력에 미치는 영향

  • 박연경 (성균관대학교 문헌정보학과) ;
  • 이용정 (성균관대학교 문헌정보학과)
  • Received : 2021.08.24
  • Accepted : 2021.09.23
  • Published : 2021.09.30
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Abstract

Due to COVID-19, user instruction programs could not be conducted face-to-face, and the sessions have been moved online. The present study attempted to investigate how online user instruction influences the information literacy ability of college students. The study randomly selected college students (N=50) who completed online user instruction sessions and college college students (N=50) who did not complete them among freshment who went to to college in 2020 to measure their information literacy abilities. For this study, a tool for measuring information literacy abilities was developed by referring to several previous studies. The measurement results were analyzed by the independent samples t-test, and significant differences were found between students who completed online user instruction sessions and those who did not. The findings of the study have confirmed that it is effective in enhancing library users' information literacy abilities to provide user instruction online under the COVID-19 situation, and even in post-COVID 19 times, which helps them appropriately utilize the characteristics of digital libraries. The information literacy measurement tool used in the present study was developed to evaluate online information literacy, and thus contributed to the extension of the literature of digital information literacy and user instruction. The present study provided practical implications for how academic libraries will promote information services to cope with environmental changes in which contact-free (untact) services are obliged.

대학도서관은 코로나-19로 인해 이용자 교육 프로그램을 대면으로 진행할 수 없었기 때문에 온라인으로 전환하게 되었다. 본 연구는 온라인 이용자 교육이 대학생의 정보 활용 능력에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 조사하고자 하였다. 코로나-19의 발생 직후인 2020년에 대학에 진학한 신입생들을 대상으로 정보 활용 교육의 효과성을 측정하기 위해 이들 중 온라인 이용자 교육을 이수한 대학생(N=50)과 이수하지 않은 대학생(N=50)을 무작위로 선정하였다. 선행 연구들을 참고하여 본 연구를 진행하는데 필요한 정보 활용 능력 측정 도구를 개발하였다. 두 대학생 집단 간의 정보 활용 능력 측정 결과를 비교하기 위해 독립표본 t-검정을 실시하였으며, 그 결과 온라인 이용자 교육을 이수한 학생과 그렇지 않은 학생의 정보활용능력에 유의한 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 연구 결과는 코로나-19 상황뿐 아니라 포스트 코로나19 시대에도 비대면 온라인 이용자 교육을 제공하는 것이 도서관 이용자의 정보 활용 능력을 향상시키고 디지털도서관의 특성을 적절하게 활용할 수 있도록 도와주는 데 효과적임을 확인시켰다. 본 연구에서 사용된 정보 활용 능력 측정 도구는 온라인 정보 활용 능력을 평가하기 위해 개발되었으며, 이는 디지털 정보 활용 능력 및 이용자 교육에 관한 연구의 확장에 기여하였으며, 또한 비접촉(언택트) 서비스가 의무화된 환경변화에 대처하면서 학술도서관이 어떻게 정보서비스를 촉진시킬 것인지에 대한 실질적인 함의를 제공하였다.

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