Library Support for Interdisciplinary Scholarship in Colleges and Universities: Lessons from the Recent Literature
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Date
2003-06
Authors
Paris, Terrence
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Mount Saint Vincent University
Abstract
When librarians understand how knowledge is produced by
scholars in an interdisciplinary field and among members of an
academic community, they are better able to create information
models for collections and services that address actual information
needs and recognize the range of information seeking behaviors.
Interdisciplinarity may assume several institutional guises:
formally in programs of research and instruction, and informally in
communication and joint efforts between faculties and individuals,
and in the preparation of course syllabi. The recent literature on
information seeking, as undertaken by interdisciplinary scholars in
the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, is reviewed and
contextualized within the functional areas of librarianship with the
aim of identifying practices that will support the interdisciplinary
inquiry of both students and faculty.
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Interdisciplinary studies , Information seeking behavior , Academic Libraries , Collections development