Routes and resources on the Information Horizon Map: Understanding undergraduate students' information seeking patters and preferred resources to enhance bibliographic instruction

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Samuel, Monecia
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • This study explains how the process of bibliographic instruction can be enhanced by a new methodology that introduces information horizon maps (IH Maps) as a means of determining students' information seeking behavior through their self-reported illustrations. The analysis of an illustrative sample of maps from undergraduate biology majors uncovered an overall preference for human information providers, whether professors, family members or peers. Although libraries were mentioned resource targets, there was no illustrated or verbal indication of the librarian as a resource; students anticipated its technical resources over its traditional offerings. The author contends that IH Maps provide a base for understanding the student, their environment, and their information needs. Cognizance of these maps as a prelude to bibliographic instruction has great advantages for both parties, and may possibly have merit in other library settings.
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  • Wildemuth, Barbara
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • December 10, 2010

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