A paper at the recent ALT-C 2010 conference (titled: ‘Into something rich and strange’ — making sense of the sea-change) brings confirmation that students are abandoning or simply never using expensive library databases. Middlesex University researchers reported that…<\/p>\n
“People expect library resources to work in the same way as those available on the internet, that is, simple and user friendly. Unless changes are made within library-subscribed [services], users will continue utilising internet resources [thus] missing the opportunity of accessing high quality scholarly materials.” […] “Many had never met their subject librarian, nor were they aware that the library provides subject support in finding information”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The conference paper would seem to arise from the Middlesex University JISC User Behaviour Observational Study: User Behaviour in Resource Discovery – Final Report<\/a><\/em> (Nov 2009), which is online for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A paper at the recent ALT-C 2010 conference (titled: ‘Into something rich and strange’ — making sense of the sea-change) …<\/p>\n