May I Introduce You: Teaching Culturally Diverse End-Users through Everyday Information Seeking Experiences.

Huston, Mary M.

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Publication Date: 1989

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May I Introduce You: Teaching Culturally Diverse End-Users through Everyday Information Seeking Experiences.

Huston, Mary M.

Reference Services Review, v17 n1 p7-11 1989

Discussion of library instruction for teaching the use of computer-based searching techniques focuses on a study conducted at Evergreen State College to determine novice and experienced users' information seeking habits, and to create a multicultural teaching model for researchers that acknowledges the users' conceptual frameworks. (15 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Libraries, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Information Seeking, Interviews, Library Instruction, Library Skills, Models, Online Searching, User Needs (Information), Users (Information)

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Audience: Media Staff; Practitioners

Language: English

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