Publication Date
2018
Journal or Book Title
The Journal of Academic Librarianship
Abstract
This study examines the information seeking habits and needs of scholars of higher education. Because higher education is a field which draws on many disciplinary traditions rather than a pure discipline in itself, the information needs of these scholars require diverse information seeking strategies. Phenomenological interviews with productive scholars of higher education were conducted and analyzed for this study. Ellis' (1989) common information seeking behaviors of social scientists are used as a framework to examine the behaviors of these applied social scientists in the modern information seeking environment.
ISSN
0099-1333
Author ORCID Identifier
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2018.03.007
Pages
337–342
Volume
44
Issue
3
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Fitzgerald, Sarah, "Serving a Fragmented Field: Information Seeking in Higher Education" (2018). The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 103.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2018.03.007
