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The Research Process and the Library: First-Generation College Seniors vs. Freshmen

Author(s) -

Elizabeth Pickard,

Firouzeh Logan

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

college and research libraries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.886

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 2150-6701

pISSN - 0010-0870

DOI - 10.5860/crl-348

Subject(s) - information literacy , ethnography , process (computing) , academic library , library instruction , medical education , mathematics education , literacy , psychology , higher education , library science , sociology , pedagogy , computer science , political science , medicine , anthropology , law , operating system

In a follow-up study to the ERIAL (Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries) Project, librarians at UIC compared the responses of first-generation college freshmen from the original study to those of seniors. The study’s aim was to determine whether student information literacy increases as a result of undergraduate education and to further explore the student research process with respect to the particular factors that inform and effect change in it. The findings showed that information literacy increased among these students, and they developed a more complex approach to the research process and the library.

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