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Comparing faculty information seeking in teaching and research: Implications for the design of digital libraries

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  • Christine L. Borgman
  • Laura J. Smart
  • Kelli A. Millwood
  • Jason R. Finley
  • Leslie Champeny
  • Anne J. Gilliland
  • Gregory H. Leazer

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ADEPT is a 5‐year project whose goals are to develop, deploy, and evaluate inquiry learning capabilities for the Alexandria Digital Library, an extant digital library of primary sources in geography. We interviewed nine geography faculty members who teach undergraduate courses about their information seeking for research and teaching and their use of information resources in teaching. These data were supplemented by interviews with four faculty members from another ADEPT study about the nature of knowledge in geography. Among our key findings are that geography faculty are more likely to encounter useful teaching resources while seeking research resources than vice versa, although the influence goes in both directions. Their greatest information needs are for research data, maps, and images. They desire better searching by concept or theme, in addition to searching by location and place name. They make extensive use of their own research resources in their teaching. Among the implications for functionality and architecture of geographic digital libraries for educational use are that personal digital libraries are essential, because individual faculty members have personalized approaches to selecting, collecting, and organizing teaching resources. Digital library services for research and teaching should include the ability to import content from common office software and to store content in standard formats that can be exported to other applications. Digital library services can facilitate sharing among faculty but cannot overcome barriers such as intellectual property rights, access to proprietary research data, or the desire of individuals to maintain control over their own resources. Faculty use of primary and secondary resources needs to be better understood if we are to design successful digital libraries for research and teaching.

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  • Christine L. Borgman & Laura J. Smart & Kelli A. Millwood & Jason R. Finley & Leslie Champeny & Anne J. Gilliland & Gregory H. Leazer, 2005. "Comparing faculty information seeking in teaching and research: Implications for the design of digital libraries," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 56(6), pages 636-657, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:56:y:2005:i:6:p:636-657
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.20154
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    1. Yong‐Mi Kim, 2010. "The adoption of university library Web site resources: A multigroup analysis," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 61(5), pages 978-993, May.

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