TY - JOUR
T1 - How First-Year Students Navigate the Stacks
T2 - Implications for Improving Wayfinding
AU - Hahn, Jim
AU - Zitron, Lizz
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/9
Y1 - 2011/9
N2 - First-year undergraduate students frequently encounter navigation problems in locating known items in the library. This study follows students through the library collection after they have a call number to uncover attributes of building layout that aid navigation and identify fail points. Researchers used ethnographic methodologies of interviewing, observation, and a "think-aloud protocol" to understand the first-year student's conceptual frame in navigating library collections.
AB - First-year undergraduate students frequently encounter navigation problems in locating known items in the library. This study follows students through the library collection after they have a call number to uncover attributes of building layout that aid navigation and identify fail points. Researchers used ethnographic methodologies of interviewing, observation, and a "think-aloud protocol" to understand the first-year student's conceptual frame in navigating library collections.
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U2 - 10.5860/rusq.51n1.28
DO - 10.5860/rusq.51n1.28
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:81455138120
SN - 1094-9054
VL - 51
SP - 28
EP - 35
JO - Reference and User Services Quarterly
JF - Reference and User Services Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -