Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Faculty have immense influence over the way students conduct research: They assign it, recommend resources, and are the gatekeepers of libraries’ access to the classroom. They’re also researchers in their own right, and both libraries and vendors work to understand how they can support advanced, subject-specific faculty research workflows as well as those of novice undergraduates. Hear the results of EBSCO’s User Research team, who spent the fall conducting a large-scale, ethnographic project on the way faculty conduct research and use library resources. Results are compared to earlier findings about students’ research habits.