Guiding Design: Exposing Librarian and Student Mental Models of Research Guides

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Hauptverfasser: Sinkinson, Caroline, Alexander, Stephanie, Hicks, Alison, Kahn, Meredith
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Veröffentlicht: 2012
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author Sinkinson, Caroline
Alexander, Stephanie
Hicks, Alison
Kahn, Meredith
author_facet Sinkinson, Caroline
Alexander, Stephanie
Hicks, Alison
Kahn, Meredith
Sinkinson, Caroline
Alexander, Stephanie
Hicks, Alison
Kahn, Meredith
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contents Guiding Design: Exposing Librarian and Student Mental Models of Research Guides Sinkinson, Caroline Alexander, Stephanie Hicks, Alison Kahn, Meredith Undergraduate Students Graduate Students Library Research Academic Libraries Librarians Research Tools Research Skills Preferences Guides Usability User Satisfaction (Information) User Needs (Information) Student Attitudes Use Studies Cognitive Style Models This article details an open card sort study administered to undergraduate students, graduate students, and librarians at the University of Colorado at Boulder in order to reveal perceptions of library research guides. The study identifies user group preferences for organization and content of research guides, as well as themes emerging from the collected study data that contrast librarian and user mental models. Interested librarians will gain insights into student perceptions and use of research guides in academic libraries today as well as recommendations for guide design. (Contains 33 notes and 9 tables.)
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spellingShingle Guiding Design: Exposing Librarian and Student Mental Models of Research Guides
Sinkinson, Caroline
Alexander, Stephanie
Hicks, Alison
Kahn, Meredith
Undergraduate Students
Graduate Students
Library Research
Academic Libraries
Librarians
Research Tools
Research Skills
Preferences
Guides
Usability
User Satisfaction (Information)
User Needs (Information)
Student Attitudes
Use Studies
Cognitive Style
Models
Guiding Design: Exposing Librarian and Student Mental Models of Research Guides Sinkinson, Caroline Alexander, Stephanie Hicks, Alison Kahn, Meredith Undergraduate Students Graduate Students Library Research Academic Libraries Librarians Research Tools Research Skills Preferences Guides Usability User Satisfaction (Information) User Needs (Information) Student Attitudes Use Studies Cognitive Style Models This article details an open card sort study administered to undergraduate students, graduate students, and librarians at the University of Colorado at Boulder in order to reveal perceptions of library research guides. The study identifies user group preferences for organization and content of research guides, as well as themes emerging from the collected study data that contrast librarian and user mental models. Interested librarians will gain insights into student perceptions and use of research guides in academic libraries today as well as recommendations for guide design. (Contains 33 notes and 9 tables.)
title Guiding Design: Exposing Librarian and Student Mental Models of Research Guides
topic Undergraduate Students
Graduate Students
Library Research
Academic Libraries
Librarians
Research Tools
Research Skills
Preferences
Guides
Usability
User Satisfaction (Information)
User Needs (Information)
Student Attitudes
Use Studies
Cognitive Style
Models
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ975612