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Wang, Ya; Howard, Pamela – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2012
Google Scholar is a free service that provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly works and to connect patrons with the resources libraries provide. The researchers in this study analyzed Google Scholar usage data from 2006 for three library tools at San Francisco State University: SFX link resolver, Web Access Management proxy server,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Instruction, Internet
Huwe, Terence K. – Computers in Libraries, 2010
Innovations in search and retrieval have provided librarians with some of their most exciting challenges as a profession. Yet even as new tools flood the academic library commons, direct, person-to-person information counseling is still needed, some would say more than ever. Consequently, it can be very useful to study how users conduct new…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Researchers, Search Strategies
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Corbett, Patrick – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
This article presents a consideration of how students' existing information-seeking behaviors affect traditional methods of teaching library research in first-year writing courses and offers an alternative method that uses both library and popular Internet search tools. It addresses one aspect of the ongoing pedagogical struggle with new…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Library Research, Familiarity, Search Engines
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Chen, Hsin-Liang – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2009
The purpose of this project was to investigate how students' search strategies changed over the course of a semester-long information literacy class. Data collection included four different paper questionnaires corresponding to course content in the spring 2008 semester. Seventy-seven participants completed the questionnaires and course work in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Course Content, Search Strategies, Information Literacy
Foster, Andrea L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Fullerton, California--College students use technology constantly. They text-message friends, compile playlists for their iPods, and are whizzes at updating their MySpace profiles. But when it comes to one kind of work they are required to do in college--namely, academic research--they can be inept. Too often, college officials say, students rely…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Journal Articles, Search Engines, Online Catalogs
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Childers, Thomas A. – Library Quarterly, 1997
Three studies examined public library reference services use by patrons in Anglo, Hispanic, and Vietnamese communities in California. Interview questions concerned search topics, use of staff help, perceived usefulness of search result, successful search strategies, reasons for not seeking help, foreknowledge of sources, reasons for using the…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Library Collections
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Farmer, Lesley S. J. – Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 1991
Describes the development of a set of modules using HyperCard for basic library skills instruction that is primarily oriented to secondary and postsecondary school library users. A research study on student searching strategies and cooperative learning is described, and the development of a student workbook on developing HyperCard stacks is…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Cooperative Learning, Hypermedia, Learning Modules