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Lamb, Janeen; Howard, Sarah; Easey, Michael – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
The aim of this study is to investigate if providing mathematics education pre-service teachers with animated library tutorials on library and database searches changes their searching practices. This study involved the completion of a survey by 138 students and seven individual interviews before and after library search demonstration videos were…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Library Materials, Library Services, Electronic Libraries
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Fong, Colin – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2006
For the past ten years law students, academics and legal practitioners have relied on AustLII and various internet search engines to conduct legal research. The purpose of this article is to examine what these can offer and to note the importance of other websites when conducting legal research. This article is based on an address given to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Law Libraries, Search Engines, Law Students
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2005
"Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources" (2005) summarizes findings of an international study on information-seeking habits and preferences. With extensive input from hundreds of librarians and OCLC staff, the OCLC Market Research team developed a project and commissioned Harris Interactive Inc. to survey a representative…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Marketing, Libraries, Foreign Countries