Users Turn to Online Library Materials Before Printed Ones

["Sloan, Bernie" <bernies@uillinois.edu>]

A quick follow-up to a note I sent a few weeks ago.

I reported on an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about "an
expansive study of the information-gathering habits of students and
faculty members."

The full report, titled "Dimensions and Use of the Scholarly Information
Environment", is now available online from the Council on Library and
Information Resources (CLIR), and the Digital Library Federation (DLF):

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub110/contents.html
<http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub110/contents.html>

Thanks to Gary Price for pointing this out on his "Virtual Acquisition
Shelf and News Desk" (http://resourceshelf.freepint.com/
<http://resourceshelf.freepint.com/> ).

Bernie Sloan

-----Original Message-----
From: Sloan, Bernie 
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: Users Turn to Online Library Materials Before Printed Ones

An interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education...

An excerpt:

"An expansive study of the information-gathering habits of students and
faculty members has found that they first turn to online materials, although
most view print as a more reliable source of information."

Full article available at:

http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002100301t.htm
<http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002100301t.htm>  

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
338 Henry Administration Building
506 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL  61801

Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax:   (217) 265-0454
E-mail: bernies@uillinois.edu