Libraries as Digital Crossroads
Tenth Annual Collection Development Symposium, May 19, 2003
Connecting with Faculty Perceptions and Behaviors
Presentor:
Dr. Karla Hahn
Collection Management Team Leader
University of Maryland Libraries
Selected and Annotated Bibliography:
Dillon, I and Hahn, KL. Are Researchers Ready For The Electronic-Only Journal Collection?
portal: Libraries and the Academie. 2(3): 375-390. July 2002.
Describes a survey of faculty and graduate students at the University of Maryland Libraries.
Discusses survey design and reports findings for frequency of use of library print and electronic
journals, faculty preferences for format for core and non-core journals, and perceptions of issues
relating to the conversion from print to electronic journals.
Tenopir and King, 2002, Reading behaviour and electronic journals. Learned Publishing.
15(4):259-266.
Reports on reading behavior of natural and social scientists at the University of Tennessee and the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Information on frequency of article readings, sources of article
readings, and methods used to identify articles read.
Brockman et al., 2001, Scholarly work in the humanities and the evolving information
environment. Digital Library Federation and Council on Library and Information
Resources. Available at
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub104/pub104.pdf
Reports qualitative investigation of humanities scholars’ patterns of information use. Faculty
from University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and the University of Chicago participated.
Drawing on observations from a broad range of disciplines describes traditional and emerging
research practices, reading behaviors, and sources and methods for using information.
Friedlander, 2002, Dimensions and Use of the Scholarly Information Environment. Digital
Library Federation. Available at
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub110/contents.html
Also known as the Outsell Survey, this was a broad survey of faculty and students from a
range of institutions of higher education from Liberal Arts colleges to public research
universities. The main focus is sources of information used for teaching and learning (as
opposed to research). Most data are reported in detail by type of institution and
disciplinary groups.