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Social Networking In Academic Libraries: The Possibilities And The Concerns, Andrea Dickson, Robert P. Holley Nov 2010

Social Networking In Academic Libraries: The Possibilities And The Concerns, Andrea Dickson, Robert P. Holley

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

The goal of this article is to examine the use of the major social networking tools in academic libraries in the United States. Since college students are heavy users of social networking, such efforts provide academic libraries with outreach possibilities to students who do not use the physical library. The paper also examines the concerns about their use both from students and within the academic library.


Student Satisfaction With Electronic Library Resources At Wayne State University, Robert P. Holley, Ronald R. Powell Jun 2004

Student Satisfaction With Electronic Library Resources At Wayne State University, Robert P. Holley, Ronald R. Powell

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

This paper reports the results of a survey of student satisfaction with electronic library resources beyond the online catalog at Wayne State University. Undertaken in Fall Term 2000 as a class project for a marketing course, a student team designed, administered, and analyzed a survey sent to a 10% random sample (2,965) of all students with a return rate of 9.41% (271). Almost 40% of the responding students said that they were unaware of electronic resource though 53.8% of these same students answered subsequent questions about use of these resources. Students aware of electronic resources learned about them much more …