Humanists Revisited: A Longitudinal Look at the Adoption of Information Technology

Wiberley, Stephen E.; Jones, William G.

doi:10.5860/crl_55_06_499

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“…Previous research has revealed that members of the science faculty used the Internet more heavily than did members of the humanities or social sciences faculties (Lazinger et al, 1997). And scholars in humanities have adopted new technologies relatively slowly as compared to other fields (Wiberley, 1991;Wiberley & Jones, 1994). In addition, science and engineering scholars require more current information than do scholars in other disciplines (Ellis, Cox, & Hall, 1993).…”

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confidence: 99%

Web searching across languages: Preference and behavior of bilingual academic users in Korea

Rieh

2005

Library & Information Science Research

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Web searching across languages: Preference and behavior of bilingual academic users in Korea

Rieh

2005

Library & Information Science Research

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“…10 The results of their study showed humanists to be highly productive scholars who work alone, although four of the eleven had coauthored publications during the course of their careers. All relied partially or totally on library collections for their research, and those who used archives or other special collections reported working very closely with the archival staff.…”

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Future Historians: Their Quest for Information

Delgadillo¹,

Lynch²

1999

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This paper examines how history graduate students at one research university seek information and how they use the university library in their information-seeking process.The general question framing the study was whether graduate students in history demonstrate the same infor mation-seeking behavior as established scholars. Related questions explored the use of new technologies and the reliance that history gradu ate students place on reference librarians and librarians in special col lections.niversity librarians count historians among their most important users. Librarians have built major collections of primary source materials, including large repositories of archival and unpublished materials, in order to support the historical scholarship being carried out by the faculty and students. Long back files of journals and large monographic collections also have been acquired to support the work of historians; in these collections of secondary scholarly materials are published the results of historical research.As library collections grow and historical scholarship expands, librarians want to know more about the kinds of materials used by historians. Librarians also seek ways to keep informed about the general areas of historical scholarship in which the local scholars are working. Although investigations of the information-seeking behavior of humanistic scholars have been growing in number and sophistication, there have been few studies of historians. Only when scholarship in history began to shift from a narrative enterprise to one using many approaches more closely related to those of the social and behavioral sciences did studies emerge that emphasized the information-seeking behavior of historians. Furthermore, interest continues in the materials and formats used in historical research, for it is artificial to separate the methods historians use from the materials they use. In addition to the materials historians use, Roberto Delgadillo is a Graduate Student in Latin American Previous InvestigationsThe broader study of the informationseeking behavior of humanists has provided useful information. 2These studies have helped shape this present investigation. Most of them were carried out before information technology, particularly the Internet, made its impact on libraries. Libraries had catalogs, databases, and abstracts online in the 1980s, but the explosion of the Internet and the rapid expansion of textual materials online had not yet occurred. In the previous discussions of formats and materials used by humanists, little use of online texts was reported. Humanists have used computers for word processing since the mid-1980s or so, but as has been reported by William Goodrich Jones:Humanists [including historians] are essentially solitary workers, accustomed to spending hours with textual materials, whatever the format, and required to do so by the methodologies of the humanities. Close reading of texts and a mastery of the contents of a large number of documents are necessities. The availability of sophis...

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“…Stone (1982) and Watson-Boone (1994) considered that staff in the humanities were most likely to work alone, tended to rely heavily on library-based materials and rarely used online databases. Wiberley and Jones (1994) have made a longitudinal study of the adoption of information technology (IT) by humanity staff and found that they were slower than scientists and social scientists to adopt new technologies in their work. Although they used word processing and the library OPAC, their use of e-mail was limited.…”

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Effective Use of Electronic Resources

Jackson

Bartle

Walton

1999

Innovations in Education and Training International

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This paper describes a recent study that we have conducted in order to explore the organizational and cultural impacts of rapid technological change and educational developments within higher education institutions in the United Kingdom. The user strand of the project was concerned with the use of electronic resources by academic staff in higher education. This examines some of the findings of the project and suggest ways in which more effective use of electronic resources by academic staff might be achieved.

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Humanists Revisited: A Longitudinal Look at the Adoption of Information Technology

Cited by 61 publications

References 5 publications

Web searching across languages: Preference and behavior of bilingual academic users in Korea

Web searching across languages: Preference and behavior of bilingual academic users in Korea

Future Historians: Their Quest for Information

Effective Use of Electronic Resources

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