What students see: Sketch maps as tools for assessing knowledge of libraries

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 187-201

  Horan, Mark ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0033130183     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0099-1333(99)80198-0     Document Type: Article

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19. Donald Appleyard, "Style and methods of structuring a city" Environment and Behavior 2, (June 1970): 100-116. See also Mark Blades, "The reliability of data collected from sketch maps," Journal of Environmental Psychology 10 (December 1990): 327-339; Norman Gale et al., "The acquisition and integration of route knowledge in an unfamiliar neighborhood," Journal of Environmental Psychology 10 (March 1990): 3-25.
20. Donald Appleyard, "Style and methods of structuring a city" Environment and Behavior 2, (June 1970): 100-116. See also Mark Blades, "The reliability of data collected from sketch maps," Journal of Environmental Psychology 10 (December 1990): 327-339; Norman Gale et al., "The acquisition and integration of route knowledge in an unfamiliar neighborhood," Journal of Environmental Psychology 10 (March 1990): 3-25.
21. Ibid, p. 111.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid, pp. 115-116.
25. Ibid, p. 112.
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27. Rovine & Weisman, "Sketch-map Variables as Predictors of Way-finding Performance," pp. 217-232.
28. Ibid, p. 223.
29. Ibid, Figure 3, p. 226.
30. Gerald Weisman, "Evaluating architectural legibility: Wayfinding in built environment," Environment and Behavior 13 (1981): 189-203.
31. Denis Wood & Robert Beck, "Janine Eber maps London," Journal of Environmental Psychology 9 (March 1989): 1-26.
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34. Golledge & Stimson, Spatial Behavior: A Geographic Perspective, pp. 246-249. See also: Figure 7.3, p. 235 shows an example of this distortion, called "rubbersheeting," in terms of residency.
35. Wood & Beck, "Janine Eber Maps London," p. 25.
36. Thomas F. Saarinen & Charles L. McCabe, "World patterns of geographic literacy based on sketch map quality," Professional Geographer 47 (May 1995): 196-204.
37. The Nesbitt Library is 7,200 square feet and has holdings of some 29,000 titles. The library is staffed with one full-time professional librarian, two full-time paraprofessional staff, two part-time paraprofessional and between zero and five part-time student workers. It is open 3,400 hours a year. Most use of the library is for study purposes; there is a low circulation, about 4,000 items a year including pickup counts. The annual turnstile count is around 31,000.
38. Amy Kautzman, "Teaching critical thinking: The alliance of composition studies and research instruction," Reference Services Review 24 (Fall 1996): 61-65.
39. Lilith R. Kunkel, Susan M. Weaver, & Kim N. Cook, "What do they know?: An assessment of undergraduate library skills," Journal of Academic Librarianship 22 (November 1996): 430-434.
40. Gloria J. Leckie, "Desperately seeking citations: Uncovering faculty assumptions about the undergraduate research process," Journal of Academic Librarianship 22 (November 1996): 201-208.