This paper aims to investigate upper-undergraduate and graduate students’ perceptions of interdisciplinarity in relation to their information-seeking habits by analyzing their beliefs, rationalizations and preferences around the retrieval, evaluation and use of information sources for interdisciplinary research.,This study made use of focus group interviews with 18 student participants enrolled in different academic programs in the humanities and social sciences at a research university in Toronto. Transcript data were analyzed through use of the constant comparison method.,Students perceive the classification of library collections as both helpful and problematic in their pursuits of interdisciplinary work. Students believe that knowing how to identify appropriate terminology while navigating scholarly and non-scholarly environments is crucial to their success in interdisciplinary research. Librarians can adjust their service philosophies and research tools to better anticipate the needs of students engaged in interdisciplinary research.,This paper adds to the literature by providing library practitioners and other interested parties with a unique view of how undergraduate and graduate students contextualize their information needs when undertaking interdisciplinary research work.

Academic Libraries: Fetishism of Information or Centre of Education.

Seeing through the network: A focus on interdisciplinary student research and information discovery

The following annotated bibliography of materials on orienting users to libraries and on instructing them in the use of reference and other resources covers publications from 1981. A few items from 1980 have been included because information about them was not available in time for the 1980 listing. A few items have not been annotated because the compiler was unable to secure copies of these items.

Library Orientation And Instruction—1981

In 1964 Dr. Vern M. Pings, who still continues to conduct well known in-depth studies of libraries in the health field, was requested to investigate the possibility of indexing the periodical literature in nursing. The result was one of the most valuable bibliographic tools we have: the International Nursing Index. In his report to the American Nurses Foundation Pings (1965) said that:
This growing body of literature is only one indication of the fact that, during the past 60 years, the nursing profession has been working toward recognition as an academic discipline...although the profession can point to a body of literature identifiable as the scholarly record of nursing, scholarship is not confined to one specialization...the human knowledge with which today's nurse should be acquainted covers everything which may affect the health of any individual, community or nation, (p. 116)
 This statement still holds true today in Canada, where the nursing profession is working toward an expanding future, increasing control of its destiny, and an intensified understanding of its role in the delivery of health care. The trends, as Mussallem (1973) puts it, are toward broader and deeper clinical knowledge for the nurse in practice, with a return to patient-centered care and increased attention to social issues. With the support of research in the field, Mussallem hopes that the progression of nursing from its primarily private duty role in the 1930s through its primarily institutional role in the 1970s, both essentially illness-oriented, will now move out into the community where illness can be forestalled by appropriate health-oriented interventions.

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Academic Libraries: Fetishism of Information or Centre of Education.

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