Comfort and convenience? Why students choose alternatives to the library

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Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-293

  Vondracek, Ruth ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34547442889     PISSN: 15312542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pla.2007.0039     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Lisa Toner, "Information Access Survey at St. Martin's College April 2005: An Investigation Into the Non-Use of Library Services by Current Students," St. Martin's College Library Services (June 2005): 2, 8, http://www.ucsm.ac.uk/library/localfiles/infaccesssurveys/report.pdf (accessed April 20, 2007).
2. Ibid., 1.
3. Lisa M. Given, "Faculty and Librarians' Perspectives on Academic Space: Setting the Stage for Students' Information Behaviour," Information Research 10, 1 (2004): summary 2, http://InformationR.net/ir/ 10-1/abs2 (accessed April 20, 2007).
4. College Students' Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources: A Report to the OCLC Membership (Dublin, OH: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2006), 3: 19-21.
5. Susan Gardner and Susanna Eng, "What Students Want: Generation Y and the Changing Function of the Academic Library," portal: Libraries and the Academy 5, 3 (July 2005): 405-20.
6. Ibid., 410.
7. Ibid., 412.
8. Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin, Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory (London: Sage Publications, 1998), 19.