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Main Authors: Frank, Ninon Franziska, Schrader, Jarmo
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1289828
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author Frank, Ninon Franziska
Schrader, Jarmo
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Schrader, Jarmo
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Schrader, Jarmo
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contents Do They Really Know What They Need? Prototypes and Different Research Methods as a Means of Testing Students' Feedback -- A Case-Study Frank, Ninon Franziska Schrader, Jarmo Foreign Countries Academic Libraries Library Services Librarians Users (Information) Research Methodology Feedback (Response) College Students Library Facilities Adopting a demand-oriented perspective helps librarians to understand their users better. Involving them in ongoing changes has the potential to have a lasting positive effect on the satisfaction of existing users and the recruitment of new ones. Three case-studies, which involved creating new learning spaces at the University Library of Hildesheim lead to the understanding that librarians need to employ attitudinal and behavioural research techniques to reach that goal because users -- as it turns out -- often do not really know what they need until they get a chance to try it.
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spellingShingle Do They Really Know What They Need? Prototypes and Different Research Methods as a Means of Testing Students' Feedback -- A Case-Study
Frank, Ninon Franziska
Schrader, Jarmo
Foreign Countries
Academic Libraries
Library Services
Librarians
Users (Information)
Research Methodology
Feedback (Response)
College Students
Library Facilities
Do They Really Know What They Need? Prototypes and Different Research Methods as a Means of Testing Students' Feedback -- A Case-Study Frank, Ninon Franziska Schrader, Jarmo Foreign Countries Academic Libraries Library Services Librarians Users (Information) Research Methodology Feedback (Response) College Students Library Facilities Adopting a demand-oriented perspective helps librarians to understand their users better. Involving them in ongoing changes has the potential to have a lasting positive effect on the satisfaction of existing users and the recruitment of new ones. Three case-studies, which involved creating new learning spaces at the University Library of Hildesheim lead to the understanding that librarians need to employ attitudinal and behavioural research techniques to reach that goal because users -- as it turns out -- often do not really know what they need until they get a chance to try it.
title Do They Really Know What They Need? Prototypes and Different Research Methods as a Means of Testing Students' Feedback -- A Case-Study
topic Foreign Countries
Academic Libraries
Library Services
Librarians
Users (Information)
Research Methodology
Feedback (Response)
College Students
Library Facilities
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1289828