University students' perceptions of the Internet: An exploratory study

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 456-461

  D'Esposito, Joann E ^a   Gardner, Rachel M ^a  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001103759     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0099-1333(99)00078-6     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Celina Pascoe, Andrelyn C. Applebee, & Peter Clayton, "Tidal Wave or Ripple? The Impact of Internet on the Academic," Australian Library Review 13 (May 1996): 147-153.
2. Clifford Perry, "Travelers on the Internet," Online 19 (March 1995): 29-34.
3. Ibid., p. 34.
4. Pascoe, Applebee, & Clayton, "Tidal Wave or Ripple?" p. 152.
5. Nigel Ford & Dave Miller, "Gender Differences in Internet Perceptions and Use," Aslib Proceedings 48 (July/August 1996): 183-192.
6. John Lubans, Jr., "How First-Year University Students Use and Regard Internet Resources" (draft) [Online]. Available: http://www.lib.duke.edu/staff/orgnztn/lubans/docs/1styear/firstyear.html (April 8, 1998).
7. David L Morgan, The Focus Group Guidebook (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998), pp. 12-13.
8. Thomas L. Greenbaum, Handbook for Focus Group Research, 2nd ed., rev. and exp. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998), p. 11.
9. A copy of the moderator guide is available from the authors.
10. A significant omission from the study was a question as to whether or not participants had asked for assistance with traditional materials.
11. Because some students were given extra credit and others were not, and because genders and ages were mixed, the groups were not as homogeneous as they would ideally have been.