Conduciveness to scholarship: The essence of academic library as place

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 536-560

  Antell, Karen ^a   Engel, Debra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

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EID: 33845334197     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.67.6.536     Document Type: Article

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37. This is similar but not identical to the results shown in figures 1 and 2 for "conduct research." The data for "conduct research" in figures 1 and 2 comes from survey question 2h, "Please indicate which of the following activities you engage in while visiting the library." The data for figures 6 and 7, on the other hand, comes from survey question 16, "When you are working on a research project, do you conduct any of your research in the library?" (The survey is reproduced in the Appendix.) In essence, the former question asks, "When you are in the library, do you conduct research?" The latter question, conversely, asks, "When you are conducting research, do you do so in the library?"