Physical vs. Digital Scholarship: Exploring Academic Resource and Information Access in a Networked Environment.

Physical vs. Digital Scholarship: Exploring Academic Resource and Information Access in a Networked Environment.

Stephen Asunka, Hui Soo Chae, Gary Natriello

This study explores some aspects of library use and academic information seeking behaviors of patrons of an academic library in a graduate school of education in the Northeastern United States with the purpose of finding out the impact of library digital resource availability on the use of its physical structures. Using logs of data on daily patron traffic through the library's physical spaces and corresponding logs of daily accesses of the library's website over the course of one academic year, the study analyzes user activity patterns of the library's physical spaces in conjunction with patronage of the library's digital resources. Findings indicate a lack of impact of digital resource availability and access on physical library use, but reveal patterns in information seeking activities for both physical and digital resources which have implications for academic information management.

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