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End User Resource Valuation In Community College Libraries: A Q Methodology Study, Theodore John Lucy
End User Resource Valuation In Community College Libraries: A Q Methodology Study, Theodore John Lucy
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to explore the valuation process of community college library end-users as they decide which information resources to use when conducting research. This study was designed as an exploratory study using Q methodology and focused on five specific information resources that community college library end-users routinely use in their research process: the Internet, the reference librarian, books, newspapers, and subscription databases. Little is known about the valuation hierarchy that end-users overlay on these resources when deciding which ones to use to address a specific research need.
Sixty-four community college library end-users from four main campuses …