Thursday, September 20, 2007

A meta-research study

Chronicle of Higher Education

From the issue dated August 17, 2007

An Anthropologist in the Library
The U. of Rochester takes a close look at students in the stacks
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i50/50a02601.htm?=attw

"A few years ago, Ms. Foster was hired by Rochester's library to study undergraduates, to help shed light on how they do their research and write papers, and how they spend their days. The results of the study, which will be published in a book due out next month from the Association of College and Research Libraries"

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