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Benefits And Outcomes Of Library Collections On Scholarly Reading In Finland, Carol Tenopir, Sanna Talja, Elina Late, Lisa Christian
Benefits And Outcomes Of Library Collections On Scholarly Reading In Finland, Carol Tenopir, Sanna Talja, Elina Late, Lisa Christian
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Results of an online survey distributed to faculty, PhD students, and researchers throughout Finland in 2016 show that library resources, journal articles, and books are important parts of scholars’ research and work life. The survey was disseminated through FinELib to heads of libraries, who were then asked to distribute it to their academic staff, researchers, and PhD students. The purpose of this study was to examine the value of readings obtained from library collections. To help answer this question, participants were asked about the amount and value of their reading and where they obtained readings, which allowed comparison of how …
Recapturing The Past Online, Carol Tenopir
Recapturing The Past Online, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Libraries across the US are seeing an increased amount of automated information coming through to their schools. Some of these systems carry historical information which dates back only to the early seventies and maybe a few services offer articles written in the sixties. A move to update these files to include more valuable information to students as well as teachers are being devised by database producers.