Information Load and Its Effects on Subject Guide Usage: A Quantitative Case Study

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Brecher, Dani
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • Library research and instruction departments are increasingly focused on improving and expanding their online subject guides. This case study examines analytic data from one year of subject guide use at a Research-I institution. A sample of over 110 total subject guides was analyzed. The subject guides were examined for indicators of information load, as measured by number of total resources on the multi-tab subject guides and number of pages in each subject guide. Resources in individual guides ranged in number from under ten to several thousand. The analytic data on the guides provides information on how students and other university affiliates used the guides, including time spent in each guide and page views. By correlating the number of resources and pages with the analytic data, preliminary conclusions about best practices for information load in subject guides were drawn, such as minimizing the number of pages in a guide.
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  • Gollop, Claudia
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  • Master of Science in Library Science
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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