Two Birds with One Stone: The effectiveness of course pages in enhancing students' familiarity with library services and in improving librarian/faculty communication
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- February 28, 2019
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Washington, Sara
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- The purpose of this qualitative study was to assess the effectiveness of two UNC course pages to introduce students to library tools, and to improve librarian/ faculty communications. Course pages, developed by UNC Library staff, are customized web pages that are populated by links to library resources and services chosen to help students complete assignments for a specific course. Through an evaluation of student research habits and their use of the course pages, the researcher found that the majority of students do not use course pages as a primary research tool for their assignments, rather turning to Google or the libraries' OPAC to begin their research. However, the study shows that through the collaborative effort of creating the course pages, faculty were made more aware of library products such as article databases, and services such as library instruction.
- Date of publication
- May 2009
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- In Copyright
- Advisor
- Norberg, Lisa R.
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Extent
- 46
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- abb1808a-3405-4d7b-866b-f35807dc08b2
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- Open access
- Date uploaded
- March 6, 2013
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