"""I Go Into a Lot of Different Places to Get my Research"": Graduate Students' Mental Models of Research Tools and Services"

Khoo, Michael; Massam, Diana; Jones, Hilary

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Title

"""I Go Into a Lot of Different Places to Get my Research"": Graduate Students' Mental Models of Research Tools and Services"

Author(s)

• Khoo, Michael
• Massam, Diana
• Jones, Hilary

Issue Date

2015-03-15

Keyword(s)

• information seeking/retrieval
• information services
• human-computer interaction

Abstract

Students have access to a wealth of digital information resources from a wide range of publishers. This paper introduces a preliminary analysis of focus group data that asked graduate students in the U.K. how they used a range of library and non-library tools and services to seek information for class projects. The findings suggest a mental model of graduate student information practice is built on a ‘whatever works’ approach rather than any deep knowledge of technical information seeking practices. This model does not differentiate significantly between different services and tools, and has as its goal getting (retrieving) and using (deploying) information in support of various aspects of student life.

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iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2015 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

English

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