图书馆用户的信息素养对借阅行为的影响机理研究

On the Influence Mechanism of Library Users’Information Literacy on Borrowing Behaviors

[目的/意义]研究图书馆用户信息素养与其到馆行为和借阅行为之间的关系,以探究信息素养对用户信息行为的影响机理。[方法/过程]通过梳理相关文献,设计信息素养量表,并以问卷调研法收集258位图书馆用户的信息素养与借阅行为等数据,采用偏最小二乘结构方程模型(PLS-SEM)验证信息素养量表的结构,检验用户信息素养、到馆频次与借阅行为之间的关系。[结果/结论]验证8维度26项的信息素养量表,发现信息素养的测量及路径系数都受到共同方法偏差显著影响;并发现在控制用户人口统计学因素和共同方法偏差因素后,信息素养显著提高图书馆用户的借阅量(标准化路径系数β=0.211,p=0.006),而到馆频次在其中起到中介作用,解释了19.16%的主效应(间接效应0.050,误差修正95%置信区间[0.019,0.093])。这说明图书馆用户信息素养的提高会促进其更好地利用信息资源,并且到访图书馆在这其中起到部分中介作用。研究结果为理解图书馆用户信息素养与信息行为的关系以及图书馆开展信息素养教育的必要性提供了实证依据。同时,在方法论上,研究结果为信息素养的测量提供了新工具,也为理解和控制共同方法偏差在图情档领域实证研究中的干扰作用提供了实证证据。

[Purpose/Significance]This paper aims to investigate the relationship between library users'information literacy and their library visits and borrowing behaviors,in order to rich our understanding of how users'information literacy affects their information behaviors.[Method/Process]A new scale of information literacy had been developed by incorporating recent studies on the topic.Data were collected by a survey of 258 library users,with a questionnaire covering the new scale of information literacy and user data including user reading and borrowing behaviors.PLS-SEM was used to examine the structure of the newly developed scale and the relationships between users'information literacy,library visits,and library reading and borrowing behaviors.[Result/Conclusion]An 8-dimension and 26-item scale of information literacy is developed by confirmatory factor analysis.The measurement model of and all paths connecting information literacy have been significantly affected by social desirability,a common source of common methods bias.Meanwhile,after controlling user characteristics and social desirability,users total number of borrows from library is positively related to their information literacy,with a standardized path coefficientβ=0.211,p=0.006,whereas user's library visits mediate this relationship,with an indirect effect of 0.05,accounting for 19.16%of the total effect,and the bias corrects bootstrapping confidence interval of[0.019,0.093].Therefore,our research provides empirical evidence on understanding how user's information literacy affects their information behaviors as well as the necessity of libraries to provide social education on information literacy.Methodologically,our study validates a new and reliable instrument to measure information literacy.Meanwhile,our study also provides empirical evidence on understanding and controlling the impacts of common methods bias in empirical studies in the field of library,information and archives.