Information seeking by humanities scholars

Authors:
George Buchanan;Sally Jo Cunningham;Ann Blandford;Jon Rimmer;Claire Warwick
Affiliations:
University College London, United Kingdom;University of Waikato, New Zealand;University College London, United Kingdom;No Institute Given;University College London, United Kingdom
Venue:
ECDL'05 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This paper investigates the information seeking of humanities academics and scholars using digital libraries. It furthers existing work by updating our knowledge of the information seeking techniques used by humanities scholars, where the current work predates the wide availability of the Internet. We also report some of the patterns observed in query and term usage by humanities scholars, and relate this to the patterns they report in their own information seeking and the problems that they encounter. This insight is used to reveal the current gap between the skills of information seekers and the technologies that they use. Searches for ‘discipline terms' prove to be particularly problematic.