Seek and You Shall Find? An Observational Study of Music Students' Library Catalog Search Behavior

Artificial Intelligence and Music Discovery

“…Clark and Yeager demonstrate the difficulties students experience in finding specific pieces of classical and jazz music in the library online catalog, and the relative ease with which they find media in the same system. 11 Dougan's earlier study along these lines finds similar results. She concludes that music researchers "need the best example that will meet their needs right then, and/or allow them to follow along to other sources from it."…”

The “Black Box”: How Students Use a Single Search Box to Search for Music Materials

“…14 Clark and Yeager found that students had an easier time searching for media items than music scores, and frequently struggled with search strategy revisions. 15 There is more research on the larger information needs of disciplines and creating models for research behavior, and not necessarily specific search processes or constructions. 16 Whitmire, in her 2002 pre-Google article, found that students majoring in the social sciences were engaged in information-seeking behaviors at a higher rate than students majoring in engineering.…”