Information needs and experiences of scholars in women's studies: Problems and solutions

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 192-209

  Westbrook, Lynn ^a  

^a TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0038179374     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.64.3.192     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Julie Klein, "Interdisciplinary Needs: The Current Context," Library Trends 45 (fall 1996): 134-54.
2. For the initial report, see: Lynn Westbrook, "Reference Support for Interdisciplinary Scholars: Resources for Working with Women's Studies Faculty," Conference Proceedings of the Association of College and Research Libraries National Conference, March 15-18 2001, Denver, Colorado (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2001), 265-70.
3. This section, part of the literature review, and the section on data gathering, naturally echo some parts of the initial report on the first segment of the study and are included with the gracious permission of ACRL, which published the first study in its conference proceedings. See Westbrook, "Reference Support for Interdisciplinary Scholars."
4. Marcia Bates, "Learning about the Information Seeking of Interdisciplinary Scholars and Students," Library Trends 45 (fall 1996): 155-64; Carole L. Palmer and Laura J. Neumann, "The Information Work of Interdisciplinary Humanities Scholars: Exploration and Translation," Library Quarterly 72, no. 1 (2002): 85-117; Don Spanner, "Border Crossings: Understanding the Cultural and Informational Dilemmas of Interdisciplinary Scholars," Journal of Academic Librarianship 27, no. 5 (2001): 352-60.
5. Marcia Bates, "Learning about the Information Seeking of Interdisciplinary Scholars and Students," Library Trends 45 (fall 1996): 155-64; Carole L. Palmer and Laura J. Neumann, "The Information Work of Interdisciplinary Humanities Scholars: Exploration and Translation," Library Quarterly 72, no. 1 (2002): 85-117; Don Spanner, "Border Crossings: Understanding the Cultural and Informational Dilemmas of Interdisciplinary Scholars," Journal of Academic Librarianship 27, no. 5 (2001): 352-60.
6. Marcia Bates, "Learning about the Information Seeking of Interdisciplinary Scholars and Students," Library Trends 45 (fall 1996): 155-64; Carole L. Palmer and Laura J. Neumann, "The Information Work of Interdisciplinary Humanities Scholars: Exploration and Translation," Library Quarterly 72, no. 1 (2002): 85-117; Don Spanner, "Border Crossings: Understanding the Cultural and Informational Dilemmas of Interdisciplinary Scholars," Journal of Academic Librarianship 27, no. 5 (2001): 352-60.
7. Lynn Westbrook, Interdisciplinary Information Seeking in Women's Studies (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1999), 113-116.
8. Judith Palmer, "Information Work at the Boundaries of Science," Library Trends 45 (fall 1996): 165-91.
9. Kristin Gerhard, Trudi Jacobson, and Susan Williamson, "Indexing Adequacy and Interdisciplinary Journals," College and Research Libraries 54, no. 2 (1993): 125-33.
10. Judith Palmer, "Scientists and Information," Journal of Documentation 47 (June 1991): 105-29.
11. ScottStebelman, "Analysis of Retrieval Performance in Four Cross-Disciplinary Databases," College and Research Libraries 55 (Nov. 1994): 562-67.
12. Marilyn Boxer, "Unruly Knowledge: Women's Studies and the Problem of Disciplinarity," NWSA Journal 12 (summer 2000): 119-29.
13. L. J. B. Mote, "Reasons for the Variations in the Information Needs of Scientists," Journal of Documentation 18 (Dec. 1962): 169-75.
14. Sue Searing, "A Quiet Revolution," Women's Review of Books 6 (Feb. 1989): 19.
15. Mary Ellen Capek, "Wired Words," in Alternative Library Literature 1986/87, ed, Sanford Berman and James Danky (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1988), 25; Sanford Berman, "Foreword," in On Equal Terms: A Thesaurus for Nonsexist Indexing and Cataloging, ed. Joan Marshall (New York: Neal-Schuman, 1977).
16. Mary Ellen Capek, "Wired Words," in Alternative Library Literature 1986/87, ed, Sanford Berman and James Danky (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1988), 25; Sanford Berman, "Foreword," in On Equal Terms: A Thesaurus for Nonsexist Indexing and Cataloging, ed. Joan Marshall (New York: Neal-Schuman, 1977).
17. Joyce Duncan Falk, "Humanities," in Women Online, ed, Steven Atkinson and Judith Hudson (New York: Haworth, 1990); Suzanne Hildenbrand, "Women's Studies Online," Research Quarterly 26, no. 1 (1986): 63-74.
18. Joyce Duncan Falk, "Humanities," in Women Online, ed, Steven Atkinson and Judith Hudson (New York: Haworth, 1990); Suzanne Hildenbrand, "Women's Studies Online," Research Quarterly 26, no. 1 (1986): 63-74.
19. Sarah Pritchard, "RLG Conspectus Women's Studies," in Women's Studies Collection Development Policies (Chicago: Women's Studies Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, ALA, 1990), Appendix C, 1-32; Kristin Gerhard, "Challenges in Electronic Collection Building in Interdisciplinary Studies," Collection Management 25, no. ° (2000): 51-65.
20. Sarah Pritchard, "RLG Conspectus Women's Studies," in Women's Studies Collection Development Policies (Chicago: Women's Studies Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, ALA, 1990), Appendix C, 1-32; Kristin Gerhard, "Challenges in Electronic Collection Building in Interdisciplinary Studies," Collection Management 25, no. ° (2000): 51-65.
21. Ellen Broidy, "Bibliographic Instruction in Women's Studies," in Conceptual Frameworks for Bibliographic Education, ed, Mary Reichel and Mary Ann Ramey (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1987), 86-96; Sarah Pritchard, "Linking Research, Policy, and Activism," Reference Librarian 20 (1987): 89-103.
22. Ellen Broidy, "Bibliographic Instruction in Women's Studies," in Conceptual Frameworks for Bibliographic Education, ed, Mary Reichel and Mary Ann Ramey (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1987), 86-96; Sarah Pritchard, "Linking Research, Policy, and Activism," Reference Librarian 20 (1987): 89-103.
23. Kristin Gerhard, Mila Su, and Charlotte Rubens, "An Empirical Examination of Subject Headings for Women's Studies Core Materials," College and Research Libraries 59, no. 2 (1998): 130-38; Margaret Rogers, "Are We on Equal Terms Yet? Subject Headings Concerning Women in LCSH, 1975-1991," Library Resources and Technical Services 37 (Apr. 1993): 181-96.
24. Kristin Gerhard, Mila Su, and Charlotte Rubens, "An Empirical Examination of Subject Headings for Women's Studies Core Materials," College and Research Libraries 59, no. 2 (1998): 130-38; Margaret Rogers, "Are We on Equal Terms Yet? Subject Headings Concerning Women in LCSH, 1975-1991," Library Resources and Technical Services 37 (Apr. 1993): 181-96.
25. Susan Searing, "Meeting the Information Needs of Interdisciplinary Scholars: Issues for Administrators of Large University Libraries," Library Trends 45 (fall 1996): 315-42.
26. Westbrook, Interdisciplinary Information Seeking in Women's Studies.
27. See Westbrook, "Reference Support for Interdisciplinary Scholars," for more complete details on the methodology.
28. For more information, contact WMST-L-request@umdd.umd.edu.
29. "Survey Info Needed," NWS Action 9 (spring 1998): 17.
30. Bates, "Learning about the Information Seeking of Interdisciplinary Scholars and Students"; Gerhard, Su, and Rubens, "An Empirical Examination of Subject Headings for Women's Studies Core Materials"; Westbrook, Interdisciplinary Information Seeking in Women's Studies.
31. Bates, "Learning about the Information Seeking of Interdisciplinary Scholars and Students"; Gerhard, Su, and Rubens, "An Empirical Examination of Subject Headings for Women's Studies Core Materials"; Westbrook, Interdisciplinary Information Seeking in Women's Studies.
32. Bates, "Learning about the Information Seeking of Interdisciplinary Scholars and Students"; Gerhard, Su, and Rubens, "An Empirical Examination of Subject Headings for Women's Studies Core Materials"; Westbrook, Interdisciplinary Information Seeking in Women's Studies.
33. Not every respondent answered every single question, so some of the totals do not equal 215.
34. Percentages are rounded off, so their totals do not always equal one hundred.
35. Elizabeth Futas, "Communication and Information Patterns in the Emerging Interdiscplinary Area of Women's Studies" (Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University, 1980).
36. "Research Study on Women's Studies Library Services," WSS Newsletter 13 (spring 1998): 4.
37. Lynn Westbrook, "Qualitative Research," in Basic Research Methods for Librarians, 3rd ed., ed. Ronald Powell (Greenwich, Conn.: Ablex, 1997): 143-63; see also, Yvonna Lincoln and Egon Guba, Naturalistic Inquiry (Newbury Park, CA.: Sage, 1985).
38. Lynn Westbrook, "Qualitative Research," in Basic Research Methods for Librarians, 3rd ed., ed. Ronald Powell (Greenwich, Conn.: Ablex, 1997): 143-63; see also, Yvonna Lincoln and Egon Guba, Naturalistic Inquiry (Newbury Park, CA.: Sage, 1985).
39. To facilitate reading, abbreviations in these quotations have been completed (e.g., "gov't doc libn" becomes "government documents librarian") and minor typing errors corrected. Any potentially identifying information (e.g., the name of an institution) has been removed.
40. For more on the concept of interdisciplinarity, see: Julie Klein, Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1990); _, "Interdisciplinary Needs: The Current Context," Library Trends 45, no. 2 (1996): 134-54; and _, Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Disciplinarites, and Interdisciplinarities (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1996).
41. For more on the concept of interdisciplinarity, see: Julie Klein, Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1990); _, "Interdisciplinary Needs: The Current Context," Library Trends 45, no. 2 (1996): 134-54; and _, Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Disciplinarites, and Interdisciplinarities (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1996).
42. For more on the concept of interdisciplinarity, see: Julie Klein, Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1990); _, "Interdisciplinary Needs: The Current Context," Library Trends 45, no. 2 (1996): 134-54; and _, Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Disciplinarites, and Interdisciplinarities (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1996).