Veteranos, Baby Boomers, Nativos Digitais, Gerações X, Y e Z, Geração Polegar e Geração Alfa: perfil geracional dos atuais e potenciais usuários das Bibliotecas Universitárias

• Autor(a) principal: Zaninelli, Thais
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Caldeira , Giseli, de Souza Fonseca, Diego Leonardo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Information Science
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/bjis/article/view/12991
• topic: Perfis geracionais; Bibliotecas Universitárias; Serviços de informação; Comportamento do usuário.

This article aims to present the result of a literature review carried out around the terms used to characterize the generations, especially those that are part of the university community, since the focus of this article is to understand the characteristics and behaviors of this group of users in order to understand the real needs of academics regarding the use of information services of University Libraries. The theoretical research used national and international databases in the search for articles without a time interval. The terms found to classify the generations were: Veterans, Digital Natives, Thumb Generation, Millennials, Z, Y and X Generations, Baby Boomers and Alpha Generation. An importante characteristic of university students is that they were born in the world of the web or cyber connected and do not know any other way to carry out their activities and relate other than through connection. Thus, University Libraries need to understand in depth the characteristics, needs and behaviors of these users in order to develop innovative information services that go beyond the needs of the informational desires of this generation.