Title
Humanists as information users in the digital age: The case of Jewish studies scholars in Israel
Abstract
User studies provide libraries with invaluable insight into their users' information needs and behaviors, allowing them to develop services that correspond to these needs. This insight has become even more important for libraries since the advent of the Internet. The Internet has brought about a development of information technologies and electronic information sources that have had a great impact on both the ways users search for information and the ways libraries manage information. Although humanists represent an important group of users for academic libraries, research studies into their information-seeking behavior since the advent of the Internet have been quite scarce (Ellis & Oldman, 2005) in the past decade. This study presents updated research on a group of humanists, Jewish studies scholars living in Israel, as information users in the digital age based on two categories: (a) the use of formal and informal information channels, and (b) the use of information technologies and their impact on humanistic research. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1002/asi.v58:14
JASIST
Keywords
Field
DocType
humanities
World Wide Web,Internet privacy,Information needs,Information retrieval,Computer science,Information technology,Information seeking,Humanism,User studies,The Internet,Scientific method,Jewish studies
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
58
14
1532-2882
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.60
8
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shifra Baruchson-Arbib1757.53
Jenny Bronstein25611.88