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You Can Diy (Do It Yourself), Nancy Turner
Librarians Do It Differently: Comparative Usability Testing With Students And Library Staff, Nancy Turner
Librarians Do It Differently: Comparative Usability Testing With Students And Library Staff, Nancy Turner
Nancy B. Turner
Our experience as librarians suggests that library staff search and locate library resources differently than college students. We bring to our work knowledge about library collections and search tool functionality that may inform our strategies for finding library resources. Through our training and experience, we have developed more accurate mental models for the information universe for which our library website is a portal. The purpose of this research is to explore that hypothesis and if it has merit, to articulate those differences in information seeking behaviors, particularly search strategy and tool use. As those patterns of difference are identified, the …