The Information-Seeking Habits of In-Service Educators

Todd Shipman is Education Librarian in Auburn University Libraries; e-mail: [email protected]; Susan H. Bannon is Associate Professor and Director in the Learning Resources Center at Auburn University; e-mail: [email protected]; Kimberly Nunes-Bufford is a Library Media Specialist at West Forest Intermediate School in the Opelika City Schools; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2015 Todd Shipman, Susan H. Bannon, and Kimberly Nunes-Bufford, Attribution-NonCommercial (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. Research on information literacy and educators has focused on preservice educators and learning information literacy skills. Little research exists on in-service educators and their information literacy skills. Purposes of this study were to identify information sources that in-service educators used; to determine relationships between information sources used and in-service educators’ professional position, age groups, experience, and information format preference; and to determine relationships between in-service educators’ information-seeking habits and prior library instruction. Results of this study indicated statistically significant relationships between information-seeking habits and prior library instruction. Other statistically significant in relationships were indicated between information-seeking habits and the age groups and current professional positions of sample population.