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Bringing the Studio into the Library: Addressing the Research Needs of Studio Art and Architecture Students
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In this paper, the authors argue that studio students often do not regard the library as logically fitting into their studio projects or course work, and as a result do not recognize their own valid and extremely challenging research needs.Abstract:
For the academic art and architecture librarian, two of the most difficult groups to draw into the library are the studio art and architecture students. These students often do not regard the library as logically fitting into their studio projects or course work, and as a result do not recognize their own valid and extremely challenging research needs. This is not to say that all studio students are unsuccessful researchers or that they never use the library. Nor is this to say that librarians, when asked, immediately have all the services and answers for these students when the latter do use the library. The difficulty lies in aligning these unique student needs with what are perceived as tradi tional library public services. This is rather tricky, particularly when such alignments question or confront what is meant by traditional library public services. Throw into the mix the everread more
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Information for inspiration: Understanding architects' information seeking and use behaviors to inform design
Stephann Makri,Claire Warwick +1 more
TL;DR: A key overarching theme was that inspiration was found to be both an important driver for and potential outcome of information work in the architecture domain, suggesting the need to design electronic information tools for architects that encourage and foster creativity.
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The information-related behaviour of emerging artists and designers Inspiration and guidance for new practitioners
Helen Mason,Lyn Robinson +1 more
TL;DR: An empirical study of the information‐related behaviour of emerging artists and designers, both as practising artists (a little understood category of information users), and also as “new practitioners”.
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Information for Inspiration: Understanding Information-Seeking Behaviour and Library Usage of Students at the Hong Kong Design Institute
Patrick Lo,Wilson Chu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical study of the inspiration-seeking process and other information-related behaviour of students at the Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) was conducted to investigate how art and design students look for and use information in the digital age, especially in the context of the library.
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Under-Served or Under-Surveyed: The Information Needs of Studio Art Faculty in the Southwestern United States
TL;DR: In this paper, the expectations and infor mation needs of studio art faculty, whether these needs are being met by academic librarians, and suggestions to improve services to Studio Art faculty and, through them, to their students are explored.
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Creative Approaches to Information Literacy for Creative Arts Students
TL;DR: It is argued that different, creative, and innovative approaches to information literacy training need to be developed with the specific learning styles of this group of students in mind and that using a radical information literacy approach, incorporating the specific nature of the art and design information landscape, enables this.
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Student artists in the library: an investigation of how they use general academic libraries for their creative needs
TL;DR: In this article, focus group interviews reveal how student artists use academic libraries to support their artwork, what these students seek, and how they feel about their experiences, while academic librarians may not fully aware of how students use library collections.
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Way beyond BI : A look to the future
TL;DR: How technology is defining the future role of library instruction is discussed, with a new model based on a positive belief system proposed.
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Artists and art libraries
TL;DR: Asked about how artists use libraries, art librarians confirm that artists gather ideas from a wide spectrum of subjects and sources, beyond the scope of the art library; they also need images and other, specific, information which art libraries often can supply.
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Informing Visual Poetry: Information Needs and Sources of Artists
TL;DR: The authors found that the informa tion-seeking behavior studies were rife with unidentified assumptions which distorted their results, and they concluded that the existing research in the LIS field was unsatisfactory.
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Developing Web-Enhanced Learning for Information Fluency: A Liberal Arts College's Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a Web-enhanced course that encompasses information literacy, basic computer literacy, and critical thinking skills for information fluency at Rollins College in South Carolina.