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This paper summarizes outcomes of quantitative research that has been made among students and staff of 2nd Faculty of Medicine at Charles University and University Hospital in Motol. The main goal is to give an overview of their information behaviour as well as to find out how the users are informed about superstructural services (they are reference, search, educational, promotional and interlibrary loan services) which are offered by library itself. The paper compares information behaviour of each user, superstructural services use, social sites use, and evaluation of information literacy classes. The final qualitative part of the research sums up users' suggestions and comments on particular library activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The category of relevance is introduced on the basis of information science development. The article describes briefly the history of relevance concepts, system and user-oriented approaches. New functions of electronic medium brings so called „relevance revolution“. According to the results of the author's own research relevance could be interpreted as an active cognitive process running during people's interaction with information and as multidimensional multicriterial links. The author proposes a new model of relevance in the electronic medium - so called relevance 2.0, and outlines a principle of ecological relevance on the basis of information ecology framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]