Driven by a need to make their library orientations more meaningful, a group of academic librarians used ethnography as a pedagogy to create a series of exercises based on participant observation and reflection. This article describes the value of ethnographic methodology in information literacy (IL) curriculum design, focusing specifically on a case study in which students completed a mapping and observation exercise in a freshman seminar course as their library tour. This assignment was more successful than a previous, more traditional approach to the freshman seminar in which the librarian pointed out elements of the space and then guided students through a subscription database. The new ethnographic approach gave students the opportunit...
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to introduce the second part of the theme issue on “user research...
Participant observation ethnography as a primary methodology, while common in other areas of social ...
Research in academic libraries has recently seen an increase in the use of ethnographic-based method...
This chapter reports on an ethnographic study of the experiences, practices and feelings of academic...
Most libraries have access to myriad information sources and data of all types. The librarians know...
Ethnography – the study of cultural groups and their practices – and ethnographic research methods a...
Objective – To determine the number of ethnographic studies of libraries and library users, where th...
Library studies (LS) has increasingly used ethnography since the mid-2000s, but researchers have ins...
In this article we discuss the benefits of student-led ethnographic research on the campus library. ...
Librarians want to know what users need and want from the library. Ethnography is a useful method fo...
Bryony Ramsden of the University of Huddersfield explains why methods more commonly used in ethnogra...
For many years libraries have chiefly investigating themselves and their users by sending out survey...
This paper describes ethnomethodologically informed ethnography (EM) as a methodology for informatio...
Librarians often feel that we understand the needs of our undergraduate users. Isn’t it possible, ho...
“Student success” and the “user experience” are terms that have gained prominence in conversations a...
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to introduce the second part of the theme issue on “user research...
Participant observation ethnography as a primary methodology, while common in other areas of social ...
Research in academic libraries has recently seen an increase in the use of ethnographic-based method...
This chapter reports on an ethnographic study of the experiences, practices and feelings of academic...
Most libraries have access to myriad information sources and data of all types. The librarians know...
Ethnography – the study of cultural groups and their practices – and ethnographic research methods a...
Objective – To determine the number of ethnographic studies of libraries and library users, where th...
Library studies (LS) has increasingly used ethnography since the mid-2000s, but researchers have ins...
In this article we discuss the benefits of student-led ethnographic research on the campus library. ...
Librarians want to know what users need and want from the library. Ethnography is a useful method fo...
Bryony Ramsden of the University of Huddersfield explains why methods more commonly used in ethnogra...
For many years libraries have chiefly investigating themselves and their users by sending out survey...
This paper describes ethnomethodologically informed ethnography (EM) as a methodology for informatio...
Librarians often feel that we understand the needs of our undergraduate users. Isn’t it possible, ho...
“Student success” and the “user experience” are terms that have gained prominence in conversations a...
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to introduce the second part of the theme issue on “user research...
Participant observation ethnography as a primary methodology, while common in other areas of social ...
Research in academic libraries has recently seen an increase in the use of ethnographic-based method...