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This analysis deals with the methods of searching for, discovering and accessing scholarly information in a group of early career humanists, theologians and scientists-artists. It is part of the findings of the Polish continuation of an international study that examined scientific communication in the Harbingers cycle, conducted in 2016-2022 among representatives of science, natural sciences and social sciences in eight countries on all continents. The study was conducted using the longitudinal interview method with the same main part of the questionnaire, which allows for various comparative analyses between different time points and between countries. This article presents a qualitative analysis of the responses given by Polish respondents to several questions on the methods of seeking, finding and discovering scholarly information. Young representatives of Polish humanities, theology and art were a diverse group: the information search methods included the use of search engines, alternative services as well as searching the resources of local libraries. It was found that the role of libraries is appreciated and that monographs are highly popular, mainly among the respondents from humanities, theology and art, which distinguishes them from scientists in other fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The problem of self-perceived employability, the concept connected with personal knowledge and information management in the context of students was described. The self-perceived employability can be defined as the ability to keep the job and as the ability to get the job one desires. And highly educated young people in variety of European Union countries, including Poland, are often unsatisfied with his or her first job. The empirical studies were conducted among the Polish and German students of various majors. A special scale was used which consisted of 19 statements regarding five components: 1) student's perception of university, 2) field of study, 3) self-belief, 4) state of the external labour market and 5) personal knowledge and information management. The last component, that is the PKIM-personal knowledge and information management, is strongly connected to information literacy, well known in the library and information science literature. The findings of these studies were compiled using statistical methods: descriptive and inferential statistics and compared with the findings of other studies in this scope. Limitations were discussed as well as the implications for the future research of this problematic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]