Mapping the attitudes of INSK students towards the integration and practical use of ICT in the environment of writing academic texts and theses

(in English) The research objective of the thesis was to determine the level of knowledge of students in the fields of information science and librarianship (INSK) about the possibilities of using information and communication technologies (ICT) in the creation of final theses, methods of their application, and also their attitudes towards these tools. The research focused on ICT tools that support digital recording, editing, generating, storing, and accessing the text part of the thesis, as well as tools used in the collection, processing, and analysis of research data. The study provided empirical results for an overview of how students use available technologies, which, according to previous research on information behavior, contribute to improving the quality of the academic writing process. The mixed research also included the identification of supporting ICT tools that were not primarily intended for text creation but were used in the implementation of research and the creation of a compact document (e.g., shared storage, machine learning models, programming languages, data analysis tools). The respondents are students of fields related to information science and librarianship. In the preliminary phase of the research, a questionnaire survey was chosen to orientate the problem, the purpose of...