International Law

Englische Studenten bevorzugen Google & Co.

By Viola Voß

… statt die Informationsressourcen ihrer Uni-Bibliothek zu nutzen: Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine britische Studie, die in der vergangenen Woche auf der Jahrestagung der Association for Learning Technology vorgestellt wurde.

The authors of the Middlesex University report comment: “People expect library resources to work in the same way as those available on the internet, that is, simple and user friendly. Unless changes are made within library-subscribed [services], users will continue utilising internet resources missing the opportunity of accessing high quality scholarly materials.” [...]
“Many had never met their subject librarian, nor were they aware that the library provides subject support in finding information,” the researchers say.
Students found services such as Google fast, universally available, not subject to ‘time-outs’, intuitive and fault-tolerant; whereas college systems were often clumsy, with poor usability. They were even disappointed that electronic resource discovery systems did not have spell checks.”

[University World News]

Vermutlich gilt das nicht nur für englische Studenten …

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Full post as published by Netbib on September 14, 2010 (boomark / email).