The US' National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will host a 90-minute webinar on June 20, 2012, from 11:00am – 12:30pm EDST to hear the just-released results of a three-year study on the behaviour of the 'Generation Y' scholar (students born between 1982 -1994) currently studying for a PhD in the UK.
Sponsored by the British Library and JISC and to be released this month, the study will examine students' activities and habits in online and physical research environments, as well as their use of print and digital library information resources.
The webinar will feature Julie Carpenter, Founder and Director of Education for Change, who served as Project Director for the study. She will discuss the results of the study on the issues such as emerging research behaviour trends across diverse subject discipline; how doctoral scholars from Generation Y seek information both on and offline; the relative use of digital resources and physical resources, including research spaces; how Generation Y students search for and use digital content for research; and Generation Y adoption and use of emerging technologies for information access and use.
The registration form can be accessed at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/368-researcher-of-the-future-jun-20-2012.
