Kornelija Petr Balog

University of Osijek | UNIOS · Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Information Sciences

Digital technology has a great potential for assisting older people in their everyday tasks and general well‐being. However, older adults are relatively slow to adopt the new technology and one of the obstacles may be their negative perception or perceived uselessness of the technology. The paper presents preliminary findings from a study into the...

Dementia is a progressive and incurable disease which impacts both people who have been diagnosed with some type of neurocognitive disorder but also their family members. Since dementia care has lately started to include not only pharmacological treatment and medical care but also a person‐centred and evidence‐based (neuro)rehabilitation in the com...

Svrha: Cilj je ovoga rada prikazati različite metode vrednovanja knjižničnih zbirki te ukazati na njihove prednosti i nedostatke, kao i situacije u kojima se često javljaju. Knjižnične zbirke osnova su knjižničnih usluga i moraju biti kvalitetno izgrađene i kontinuirano vrednovane u odnosu na korisničke potrebe. Rad daje pregled metoda i tehnika ko...

Library and information science (LIS) as a discipline is constantly changing in line with the trends of the profession, so in order to ensure LIS curriculum in higher education addresses the needs of contemporary stakeholders, evidence-based evaluation and improvement is needed. Student satisfaction has become an important factor in considering the...

Purpose. The world population is continuously ageing, and a significant amount of world efforts has already been dedicated to increasing the quality of life of the population in the age-group of 65+. A way to achieve this goal is to introduce older generations to the benefits of digital technology. This paper presents the findings of a study on dig...

COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 and consequent lockdown caused a number of changes in the everyday activities and lives of people globally. This paper looks into the change of reading habits of adult library users in Croatia. The online survey was administered through social media and mailing lists of Croatian public libraries, but part of the sample was...

The goal of the study is to investigate law students’ perceptions about academic integrity and plagiarism. The study looked into the opinions and attitudes of students at a Law school in Osijek and a Law school in Rijeka. An online survey was conducted in March and April 2021. The sample included students of all five years of study who attended sem...

This paper examines the information behaviour and information needs of incarcerated persons in Croatian correctional facilities. A total of 620 printed questionnaires were mailed to six Croatian penitentiaries and administered to prisoners who were serving a long-term period sentence. Sample included both male and female prisoners with the response...

Cilj. Cilj je rada prikazati rezultate istraživanja provedenog 2021. godine o čitanju i čitateljskim navikama građana Republike Hrvatske tijekom pandemije bolesti COVID-19 te istražiti je li tijekom tog vremena došlo do promjena u navikama i vremenu provedenom u čitanju u odnosu na vrijeme prije pojave koronavirusne bolesti. Pristup/metodologija/di...

Sažetak Svrha: Cilj je ovoga rada prikazati različite metode vrednovanja knjižničnih zbirki te ukazati na njihove prednosti i nedostatke, kao i situacije u kojima se često javljaju. Knjižnične zbirke osnova su knjižničnih usluga i moraju biti kvalitetno izgrađene i kontinuirano vrednovane u odnosu na korisničke potrebe. Rad daje pregled metoda i te...

Sažetak Uslijed COVID-19 pandemije i smanjene mogućnosti konzumiranja i sudjelovanja u drugim kulturnim događanjima i aktivnostima, jedna od kulturnih djelatnosti za koju je pretpostavka da bi u ovoj situaciji mogla priskrbiti više pažnje jest upravo knjižnična i nakladnička djelatnost. Cilj je ovog rada utvrditi je li uistinu to tako. Rad istražuj...

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, is an incurable neurological disease with an unknown cause. Since AD is not only social and health challenge but also an economic and fiscal burden and its prevalence is expected to grow exponentially as world population gets older, in 2012 the World Health Organization (WHO) and Alzheime...

Cilj. Cilj ovoga rada je dati povijesni pregled djelovanja Odsjeka za informacijske znanosti Filozofskog fakulteta Osijek od njegovog osnutka do danas s naglaskom na njegovu znanstvenu, nastavnu i stručnu djelatnost, studentsku populaciju te ishode učenja i kompetencije diplomiranih studenata. Pristup. Na temelju postojećih dokumenata i radova koji...

Introduction. The paper presents findings from a study that investigated information needs of caregivers of Alzheimer’s disease patients’ in Croatia, a country in which health and social care systems for such persons are insufficiently developed. Special emphasis is put on the barriers caregivers face in obtaining required information or services....

This paper presents findings from a study which investigated the information needs of caregivers (CGs) of persons with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in Croatia, a country where the health and social care systems for AD patients and their CGs are not fully established nor efficient. The study was conducted with the help of qualitative content analysis on...

p> Cilj . Cilj je ovoga rada pojasniti pojmove informacijske i informatičke pismenosti te važnost njihove primjene u svakodnevnom životu osoba treće životne dobi s ciljem smanjivanja njihove socijalne isključenosti. Rad prikazuje i rezultate istraživanja provedenog u sklopu projekta „Ukorak s vremenom – osnove rada na računalu“, kao i ulogu Gradske...

This paper presents findings from the study which investigated information needs of patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and their caregivers in Croatia. The study was conducted with the help of quantitative analysis and content analysis of statements on the Croatian Internet forum (Forum.hr) posted by the patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) a...

The paper presents findings collected in the study on workplace information literacy (IL) of Croatian fitness and conditioning personal trainers. The purpose of this study is to identify the level of IL and information behaviour of fitness and conditioning personal trainers with different educational backgrounds in kinesiology. The study addresses...

Various aspects of harmonization at European Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) that offer programs in Library and Information Studies (LIS) have been studied since early 1990s. Since 2004-05 – when a project on Curriculum Development was funded through Erasmus program – up to 2016, there were no projects on education in Library and Information S...

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to present findings of a study on information sources and information behavior of doctoral students at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. The study also looked into student perceptions of the role of the academic library and their attitudes toward it as a legit...

Abstract. This paper looks into the information horizons of Croatian family medicine physicians and clinicians with the aim of determining whether they differ from the findings of previous studies. In this pilot-study we used a map drawing technique and follow-up interviews. The sample consisted of five physicians interviewed in 2015 and five phys...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present results of the application of the Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) framework on the study of the ability of subject indexers in Croatian libraries to find and apply the necessary information in order to perform their work. CWA is a work-centered conceptual model (Rasmussen et al, 1994) whose purpose is t...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a small scale pilot-study of information horizons of Croatian physicians, more precisely, general practitioners (GP) and specialists, with the aim of determining whether there are differences in information sources they use considering the differences in their medical practice. Information horizon is...

The purpose of this poster is to present the ongoing Erasmus+ project on harmonization of mobility and learning outcomes in the area of information sciences (IS) at a graduate level.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to find out whether the students of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) in Osijek, Croatia interact online with any sort of e-democracy or e-government information. Methodology: This paper presents the findings of a pilot-study conducted among the undergraduate and graduate students of the FH...

Cilj ovoga rada je prikazati kako nastavno osoblje Filozofskog fakulteta u Osijeku percipira i koristi usluge svoje matične Knjižnice te utvrditi postoje li odstupanja u zabilježenom zadovoljstvu nastavnika u zadnje tri iteracije mjerenja (2010; 2013; 2016). Rad koristi kombinaciju kvantitativnih i kvalitativnih istraživačkih metoda. Kvantitativni...

This paper presents findings of a study based on the concept of information horizons, which was proposed in 1999 by Diane Sonnenwald with purpose of exploration human information behaviour. Sonnenwald suggests in her framework that certain types of data, which have not been traditionally included in studies of information behaviour, are important....

Knjižnica Filozofskog fakulteta u Osijeku svojim je poslovanjem i strateškim dokumentima jasno naglasila svoju orijentaciju na unaprjeđivanje kvalitete svoga poslovanja. S tim u vezi , obvezala se i na kontinuirano istraživanje zadovoljstva svojih korisnika koje se provodi svake tri godine. U ovom se radu prikazuju usporedni rezultati istraživanja...

Rad daje prikaz rezultata istraživanja Gradske i sveučilišne knjižnice u Osijeku na temu komunikacijskih znanja i vještina potrebnih za provedbu kvalitetne komunikacije u knjižnicama. Asertivna komunikacija opisuje se kao sredstvo koje može pridonijeti pozitivnoj percepciji knjižnice u javnosti. Govori o potrebi knjižničara za stjecanjem znanja o k...

This paper presents findings of the research whose goal was to investigate and identify the key elements for a successful formal inclusion of information literacy (IL) programs into the curriculum and strategic documents at the institutional level of law faculties in Croatia based on the viewpoint of the senior administration of two Croatian law fa...

IzvlečekNamen: Članek predstavlja izbrane rezultate pilotne raziskave manjšega obsega na temo informacijskega vedenja študentov Univerze v Osijeku v digitalnem okolju.Metodologija/pristop: Kvalitativna raziskava je bila opravljena na vzorcu šestih študentov različnih družboslovnih smeri (informacijska znanost, psihologija, ekonomija, menedžment v k...

Purpose: The paper presents selected findings of a small-scale pilot study on the actual information-seeking behaviour of the Osijek University students in the digital environment. Design/Methodology/Approach: A qualitative research was conducted on the sample of six graduate students of different social science disciplines (information sciences, p...

Theoretical background E-democracy has become a vital part of today’s information society. It involves the usage of information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance the democratic structures and processes (Coleman and Norris 2005). E-democracy refers to all sectors of democracy, to all democratic institutions and to all levels of governm...

Elektroničke su knjige prisutne na tržištu već neko vrijeme, no za knjižnice, posebice hrvatske, one predstavljaju prilično velik izazov, a s njihovim uvrštavanjem u knjižnične zbirke povezane su brojne nedoumice i nepoznanice. U radu se problematiziraju brojni aspekti vezani uz elektroničke knjige poput pitanja upravljanja vlasničkim pravima (Digi...

For the last couple of decades academic libraries have witnessed a transformative changes in student learning, faculty teaching methods, and information technology. As a result, academic libraries worldwide are pushed to rethink the ways in which they design and provide their services, both in physical and virtual space. The chapter will present th...

Ako uzmemo u obzir temeljni razlog i ciljanu publiku knjižničnog kataloga, po-trebno je kontinuirano raditi na istraživanjima načina na koji mu korisnici pristupaju (neovisno o tome radi li se o katalogu na listićima ili online), razumiju li ga (elemente zapisa), znaju li se služiti njime te, u konačnici, uspijevaju li u katalogu pronaći ono što tr...

This paper presents the findings of a small-scale pilot study on law students’ information literacy skills and their ability to find information on environmental protection. Environmental issues are a growing concern today and numerous associations, organizations and individuals are waging an active world preservation campaign. The aim is to demons...

Abstract This paper presents the findings of a small-scale pilot study on the law students’ information literacy skills and their ability to find information in the domain of environmental protection. The survey was conducted in the period of March-May 2015 on the sample of 39 students enrolled in the elective course Environmental law and 110 stude...

Narodne knjižnice danas prolaze kroz brojne promjene i to na nekoliko razina – promjene vezane uz isporuku i dostupnost informacija, uz tehnologiju, uz okruženje i dostupna financijska sredstva, te same načine korištenje. Suvremene se narodne knjižnice svojim inovativnim uslugama te svojom kvalitetom moraju neprestano boriti za svoje korisnike paze...

Sve je više hrvatskih knjižnica koje u svome posjedu imaju elektroničke knjige (e-knjige). E-knjige, međutim, imaju dijelom bitno drugačije značajke od tiskanih knjiga. Mnoge od tih značajki su prednosti u odnosu na tiskane poput činjenice da se ne mogu fizički uništiti ili pohabati, da ih istovremeno može koristiti više korisnika, ili da štede pro...

Abstract Higher education in the Republic of Croatia has been going through transformative changes ever since the introduction of the Bologna process. The Bologna process in Europe was introduced with the intention to ensure the more comparable, compatible and coherent systems of higher education and one of the extremely important elements of this...

Komunikacijske vještine spadaju u temeljne vještine knjižničara, posebice onih koji rade u korisničkim službama. Međutim, koliko uspješno doista uspijevamo komunicirati s našim korisnicima i prenijeti im željenu poruku? Ovaj rad daje prikaz istraživanja provedenog u Gradskoj i sveučilišnoj knjižnici Osijek. Istraživanje je kvalitativno i kao metoda...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a small-scale pilot-study conducted among students of law at Osijek University on e-government and e-democracy information and their ability to find, evaluate, and apply that information in their studies and everyday lives. Many developed countries today have put in place e-government...

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a small-scale pilot-study conducted among students of law at Osijek University on e-government and e-democracy information. The aim of the research was to find out the degree of the students’ information literacy regarding the e-government and e-democracy information. The survey was conducted...

Vrednovanje zbirke visokoškolske knjižnice pomoću metode usporedbe (checklist method) s popisima ispitne literature Kornelija Petr Balog, kpetr@ffos.hr Sveučilište J. J. Strossmayera u Osijeku, Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za informacijske znanosti Marija Bugarski, marybugarski@gmail.com Gradska knjižnica Vukovar Libellarium, VII, 2 (2014): 253-265....

In 2011 the Croatian Government issued the National Plan for Employment 2011-2012 (continued to the end of 2013) whose aim was to increase the employment and decrease the unemployment rate. One of its target groups are young people. Consequently, the Croatian Employment Service has, as a part of this plan, initiated the program entitled “Work, work...

This paper describes the foundation of Green Libraries of Energetic Efficiency (or Green EE Libraries) in Croatia, with a special emphasis on the Green EE Library founded at the Law Faculty Library in Osijek. Green Libraries of Energetic Efficiency have been founded as a result of a project “Removing Barriers to Energy Efficiency in Croatia” (EE pr...

kpetr@ffos.hr Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za informacijske znanosti Martina Dragija Ivanović, mdragija@unizd.hr Sveučilište u Zadru, Odjel za informacijske znanosti Libellarium, VII, 2 (2014): 141-164. UDK: 023.4-057.17:021(497.5)=111 http://dx.doi.org/10.15291/libellarium.v7i2.203 Izvorni znanstveni...

Sažetak Smatra se da korisniku dosljednost kod predmetnog označivanja osigurava veću mogućnost pronalaska željenog dokumenta. I dok je dosljednost označivanja u zapad-nim zemljama dobro istražena i analizirana tema, u području hrvatskog knjižničarstva relativno je nova. Ovaj rad donosi rezultate istraživanja dosljednosti predmetnog označivanja elek...

It is assumed that indexing consistency will greatly increase users’ chances of finding a required document. Indexing consistency is a well researched and analyzed concept in Western countries, but in the field of Library and information science in Croatian it is relatively new. This paper presents findings of a research of the public library index...

The purpose of this paper is to present outcomes of library instruction focusing on student information literacy (IL) at two Croatian academic institutions: The Law Faculty and The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek, Croatia. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences library started with course-related IL instruction in the 201...

Ovaj rad donosi rezultate istraživanja provedenog među visokoškolskim knjižnicama Sveučilišta J. J. Strossmayera u Osijeku. Cilj istraživanja bio je propitati prepoznaju li visokoškolske knjižnice Sveučilišta u Osijeku važnost informacijskog opismenjivanja svojih korisnika, provode li ga i na koji način. Istraživanje je provedeno u veljači i ožujk...

fakultet Odsjek za informacijske znanosti kpetr@ffos.hr UDK / UDC 025.4.05:004.62>(497.5) Istraživanje / Research paper Primljeno / Received: 7.2.2013. Sažetak U radu je prikazan način na koji korisnici razumiju i uspijevaju pronaći sadržaje u mrežnim katalozima narodnih knjižnica koje posluju u okviru različitih knjižničnih sustava prilazeći im op...

Croatian libraries have not yet started acquiring e-books, although the interest for this new medium does exist. This paper gives an overview of the experiences with the acquisition of e-books in the libraries around the world (public and academic). Special attention is given to the models of circulation of this new medium, as well as the limitatio...

Communication skills belong to the fundamental skills for librarians, especially those who work in user departments. But, the question is how successful are we really in communication with our users? Do we manage to communicate our message to them, and if we do, to what degree? This paper presents the findings of the research conducted at the City...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of the customer satisfaction survey of the Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek Library. The purpose of the survey was to determine the level of satisfaction among two customer groups: students and faculty. Design/methodology/approach The methodology utilised was a five‐page satisfaction ques...

Recently, Croatian libraries have been paying more attention to the activities connected with performance measurement in an attempt to improve the quality of their services. This paper defines the terms 'organizational culture' and 'culture of assessment', and, analyzing the selected results of the project Evaluation of library services: academic a...

The paper presents the project of the Department of Information Sciences of the Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek, within which the students did their feld-work practice in the Franciscan monastery in Tolisa, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project started in 2010 and this paper describes the PHASE I of the project, i.e. the initial activities in organis...

Posljednjih nekoliko godina dolazi do porasta broja elektroničkih izvora kako u visokoškolskim, tako i u narodnim knjižnicama. Elektroničke knjige (e-books) posebice elektronički udžbenici posebno su popularni u knjižnicama visokih učilišta dok je u narodnim knjižnicama naglasak na naslovima iz područja književnosti. Ulazak sadržaja u obliku elekt...

The paper presents a part of the findings of the research project entitled Evaluation of library services: academic and public libraries. The main hypothesis of the project states that libraries in Croatia do not give enough attention to the evaluation of their service quality, and that library staff are, consequently, not enough prepared (neither...

This paper presents the results of individual interviews on organizational culture in libraries with twenty Croatian library directors and Chief Librarians conducted in the period between 2008 and 2010. Library directors talk, among other things, about library quality, position of libraries in local community (public libraries) or within the instit...

Bologna process motivated numerous academic libraries in Croatia to start rethinking about the service quality they provide as well as the ways to improve it. This paper presents and analyses the attempts of the Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek Library to improve its service, pinpointing the objective limitations and obstacles the library has come a...

za informacijske znanosti Filozofski fakultet Osijek kpetr@ffos.hr Martina Dragija Ivanović Odjel za knjižničarstvo Sveučilište u Zadru mdragija@unizd.hr Kristina Feldvari Odsjek za informacijske znanosti Filozofski fakultet Osijek kfeldvari@ffos.hr UDK / UDC 021:[027.3+027.7:023.4 Istraživanje / Research paper Primljeno / Received: 27. 9. 2010. Sa...

This paper presents the findings of a pilot-project of the library of the Electrical Engineering Faculty in Zagreb. The aim of the project was to prepare secondary school fourth- year students of several technical schools in Croatia for the study at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Zagreb using the e-learning method. Preparatory materials a...

The main purpose of this paper is to see the extent of librarian's professionalism and to see how much librarians observe ethical principals of their profession. The interviews with various types of library customers are supposed to reveal the kind of problems in accessing information they have had in their lives. One of the basic rights of any ind...

Purpose This paper aims to present the results of interviews conducted with public library directors and academic Chief Librarians on various topics connected with library quality in order to determine the library culture in those libraries. Design/methodology/approach Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with ten library directors. Findings...

This paper presents the employers' opinions on the degree in which the Department of Information Sciences in Osijek manages to meet the market requirements and prepare its students for their future profession. The study presented here was conducted among those institutions in Slavonia and Baranya (primarily academic and public libraries) that are m...

In 2005, Croatian higher education curricula underwent a significant reform in order to comply with the requirements of the Bologna Process. This paper examines the ways this reform affected cataloguing instruction at the Department of Library and Information Sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek, Croatia.

Purpose This paper aims to present the proposed methodology for the first scientific project to evaluate Croatian academic and public library services. Design/methodology/approach The project shown in the paper will: collect statistical data on state‐of‐the‐art in libraries, as well as public and academic library staff opinions on evaluation activ...

Using the methodology of comparative analysis, two cataloguing codes are examined to identify similarities and differences in their approaches and solutions to particular bibliographic problems: the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2), used in the U.S.A., and Pravilnik i prirucnik za izradbu abecednih kataloga (PPIAK), used in Croatia. Recomme...

Paper discusses the proposed methodology for measuring Croatian public and academic libraries culture of assessment.

Purpose This paper seeks to investigate the degree to which the unfavourable state of the Croatian higher education system (the lack of vision, goals and objectives, insufficient budgeting and no quality control system) reflects on the organization, development and continuous dedication to quality of academic libraries in Croatia. Design/methodolo...

Croatia is a multinational and multicultural country. According to the 1991 census there are 21.9 per cent various ethnic and cultural minorities in Croatia. Osijek-Baranya county (Eastern Croatia) is the third in number of Roma people in Croatia. The Romany minority is in a particularly difficult position regarding the integration with the rest of...

Every profession has the urge to question and investigate its own identity as well as its reception by the society. This paper presents the findings of the study conducted in Croatia at the end of 2001, but also gives an overview of the similar studies conducted in this region since the mid- 1990s. This research was conducted among the librarians a...

Distance education is not a big news in the academic community of library science. It has been drawing attention of the educators all over the world ever since its emergence at the end of the 60ies but in the last twenty years, as a result of the rapid developments in ICT and the increasing presence of the Internet in the academic education and res...

The paper presents some results of the user study, conducted in 1998, among the users of the Osijek Faculty of Education Library. The objective of the study was to determine the scope of library usage, the degree of users’ dis/satisfaction with library services, holdings and the staff. The results indicate that there are differences in library usag...