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Serving Higher Education's Highest Goals: Assessment of the Academic Library as Place
(ACRL Publications, 2011-09) Jackson, Heather Lea; Hahn, Trudi Bellardo
An empirical study was conducted using methods borrowed from the psychology of religion (instead of corporate assessment techniques) to assess whether the academic library as place supports students’ desire to feel connected to higher education’s mission. The findings from an in-person survey of fifty-four students at three universities showed a preference for exterior and interior images of traditional libraries over those classed as modern, and those images evoked feelings of scholarship, engagement,spirituality, and other positive emotions, as well as subjects’ desire to use those spaces more than they currently use their existing library.
Understanging Information Use in the Multidisciplinary Field: A Local Citation Analysis of Neuroscience Research
(ACRL Publications, 2005-05) Burright, Marian; Hahn, Trudi Bellardo; Antonisse, Margaret J.
Assessing the information needs of a multidisciplinary academic community presents challenges to librarians managing journal collections. This case study analyzed the literature used by the neuroscience community at the University of Maryland to determine the following about the publications they cited: their type, their discipline, and how recent they were relative to the citing publication. The authors searched the ISI Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index to identify the publishing, citing, and coauthoring patterns of both faculty and graduate students to inform library decisions about collecting journals and other types of literature.