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How first-year students navigate the stacks: implications for improving wayfinding

Hahn, James F.; Zitron, Lizz

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/24002

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Title
How first-year students navigate the stacks: implications for improving wayfinding
Author(s)
  • Hahn, James F.
  • Zitron, Lizz
Issue Date
2011-09
Keyword(s)
  • wayfinding
  • first-year undergraduate students
  • Undergraduate libraries.
  • undergraduate students
Abstract
First-year undergraduate students frequently encounter navigation problems in locating known items in the library. This study follows students through the library collection after they have a call number in order to uncover attributes of building layout that aid navigation and identify fail points. Researchers used ethnographic methodologies of interviewing, observation, and a “think-aloud protocol” to understand the first-year student’s conceptual frame in navigating library collections.
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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  • http://www.rusq.org/
  • http://hdl.handle.net/2142/24002

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