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Understanding Information Behaviour: How Do Students and Faculty Find Books?
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Rowlands, Ian; Nicholas, David – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2008
Faculty and students at University College London (UCL) were polled online in November 2006 as part of a wider investigation into the impact of e-books in UK higher education. One of the survey questions probed the strategies that members of the academic community use to identify the conventional printed books that they need for work, study, or…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Search Strategies, Books