The desire for modernization of Academic Libraries by digital natives: trend or fad?
Sandra Gomes de Oliveira Reis- Ana Luísa Moure Peres
Published 2021-06-19
Keywords
- Nativos digitais,
- Geração Z,
- Bibliotecas universitárias,
- Inovação,
- Serviços de informação.
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Abstract
This article aims to present the result of a pilot study carried out with academics, users of academic libraries, known in the literature as digital natives, for being born between 1980 and 1995. An important characteristic of this generation is that they were born in the world of the web or cyber-connected and they do not know any other way to carry out their activities and to relate other than through connection. Thus, academic libraries need to develop new products and services, innovate, aiming to meet the new demands of this digital user. To this end, 57 undergraduate students from several courses at a state university in northern Paraná were interviewed to see if the longing for innovation of these users is a real need - a trend - or if it is a fad. As a result of the analysis of the information, on the one hand, it is possible to identify some new needs and desires of digital natives with regard to the information products and services offered by university libraries and, on the other hand, a tendency of these units to invest in innovation.