Title of Presentation
Old Habits Are Hard to Break: Lessons Learned from a Qualitative Research Study
Presentation Type
Presentation
Conference Track
Other
Description
Librarians listened and observed as undergraduate students tackled a typical research-based assignment using broad-based discovery tools, including Google Scholar, Web of Science and Summon. We will discuss what we learned about the research processes our users have developed, how they fit unfamiliar tools into those processes, how they carry early experiences from high school and public libraries into their college searching, and the implications for effectively introducing new tools into our users' research processes.
Start Date
10-2-2012 10:10 AM
End Date
10-2-2012 10:55 AM
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/19982
Old Habits Are Hard to Break: Lessons Learned from a Qualitative Research Study
Librarians listened and observed as undergraduate students tackled a typical research-based assignment using broad-based discovery tools, including Google Scholar, Web of Science and Summon. We will discuss what we learned about the research processes our users have developed, how they fit unfamiliar tools into those processes, how they carry early experiences from high school and public libraries into their college searching, and the implications for effectively introducing new tools into our users' research processes.