The Information Needs of Historians

Stieg, Margaret F.

doi:10.5860/crl_42_06_549

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“…Their overall use of indexing systems may be lower than that of scientists. These findings have been corroborated by smaller studies conducted by Wood and Bower (1969), Styvendaele (1977), Stenstrom andMcBride (1979, 1982), and Stieg (1981). More recently, Folster (1989) studied faculty in four social science departments finding once again that reading journals in their own field, tracing references, consulting personal collections, consulting colleagues, scanning journals in other fields, and attending conferences all ranked above use of abstracts or indexes as techniques of information gathering.…”

Section: Social Science Researcherssupporting

confidence: 52%

Library trends: Toward information literacy — Innovative perspectives for the 1990s

Callison

1992

Information Processing & Management

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Section: Social Science Researcherssupporting

confidence: 52%

Library trends: Toward information literacy — Innovative perspectives for the 1990s

Callison

1992

Information Processing & Management

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“…18 Their definitions of history provided insight to its close relations with other disciplines. In method and content, history was acknowledged as both a borrower and contributor to other fields of knowledge.…”

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“…Margaret F. Stieg's work confirmed that manuscripts and materials in archival collections provide essential sources used by historians in their work. 5 Walter Rundell Jr. surveyed 557 professors directing research, graduate students, librarians, and archivists; and found that the relationships between the researchers and the librarians and curators were excellent and that the historians were among the libraries' most active users. 6 He observed that many graduate students who were working on dissertations used collections in libraries other than their home institutions, and he discussed various protocols appropriate in using other repositories.…”

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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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“…Una conclusión que puede sacarse es que cerca del 30% de las referencias de las actas, se hicieron a trabajos en lenguas extranjeras, un porcentaje mucho mayor que el 19,5% encontrado por Knievel y Kelsey (2005), y que está en consonancia con la observada en múltiples trabajos anteriores, gran capacidad idiomática de los humanistas (Bebout y otros, 1975;stieg, 1981), y que está relacionada con su necesidad investigadora de consultar documentos originales y no traducidos. tabla 4 -Idiomas de las referencias en actas de congresos.…”

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Características de la investigación Española en historia moderna a partir de las actas de congresos

Martín-Moreno¹,

García-Zorita²,

Efrain-García³

et al. 2009

A Ciência Da Informação Criadora Do Conhecimento Vol. II

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A navegação consulta e descarregamento dos títulos inseridos nas Bibliotecas Digitais UC Digitalis, UC Pombalina e UC Impactum, pressupõem a aceitação plena e sem reservas dos Termos e Condições de Uso destas Bibliotecas Digitais, disponíveis em https://digitalis.uc.pt/pt-pt/termos.Conforme exposto nos referidos Termos e Condições de Uso, o descarregamento de títulos de acesso restrito requer uma licença válida de autorização devendo o utilizador aceder ao(s) documento(s) a partir de um endereço de IP da instituição detentora da supramencionada licença.Ao utilizador é apenas permitido o descarregamento para uso pessoal, pelo que o emprego do(s) título(s) descarregado(s) para outro fim, designadamente comercial, carece de autorização do respetivo autor ou editor da obra.Na medida em que todas as obras da UC Digitalis se encontram protegidas pelo Código do Direito de Autor e Direitos Conexos e demais legislação aplicável, toda a cópia, parcial ou total, deste documento, nos casos em que é legalmente admitida, deverá conter ou fazer-se acompanhar por este aviso.Características de la investigación Española en historia moderna a partir de las actas de congresos Autor(es):

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The Information Needs of Historians

Cited by 78 publications

References 6 publications

Library trends: Toward information literacy — Innovative perspectives for the 1990s

Library trends: Toward information literacy — Innovative perspectives for the 1990s

Future Historians: Their Quest for Information

Características de la investigación Española en historia moderna a partir de las actas de congresos

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