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Thanks for your help with our study,Tracking Student Information Seeking Behavior in an Online Environment
Thanks for your help. We now have enough students to participate in our project. Look for our call for a follow-up study this fall.
Professor Bloom (beth.bloom@shu.edu) and Dr. Deyrup (marta.deyrup@shu.edu)
Librarians Release Online Survey of Digitized Rare Catholica
Marta Deyrup and Martha Loesch, catalogers at Walsh Library and Pat Lawton, digital project librarian for the Catholic Research Resources Alliance, have released the results of their Survey of Digitized Rare Catholica held by Catholic universities, colleges, seminaries and archives in the U.S. and Canada. You may view the Summary Report of Results at: http://bit.ly/Survey_report and the results data at: http://bit.ly/Survey_results.
Thank You Gourmet Dining Services
A big thank you to Gourmet Dining Services for generously providing coffee, hot chocolate and cookies for students working in the library during exam week. It was greatly appreciated.
SPECIAL HOURS FOR FINAL EXAMS
SPRING 2011
May 1 – May 13, 2011
The Library will be open
24 Hours, 7 Days a Week
For Final Exams
Starting on
May 1 at 7:00 am
until
May 13 at 11:00 pm
The library hours for:
May 14 – 15, Saturday – Sunday …Closed
May 16, Monday……………………… 7 am to 5 pm
Librarians Win Prestigious Google Grant
Beth Bloom, Marta Deyrup, and Paul Fisher have been awarded a prestigious Google research grant of $15,000 to track undergraduate students’ information-seeking behavior at Seton Hall University. This builds on an earlier CDI grant that Bloom and Deyrup received from the TLTC last year. In the CDI grant the librarians used Open Hallway, an online-behavior recording tool, to examine what kinds of strategies students use while doing online research and the effect librarian intervention has on their students’ success in finding quality information. The Google grant allows the library to study a much larger population over a much longer period of time. The librarians hope that the knowledge they gain from this study will enhance the library’s Information Literacy program. Currently the librarians instruct more than 4000 students each year and are constantly expanding and developing this program to reflect changing trends in technology. For more information about the library’s Information Literacy program, please contact Beth Bloom at (973) 761-9000 ext.2035 and Marta Deyrup at (973) 761-9000 ext. 2223.
http://www.shu.edu/news/article/326042
Vending machines in the library
The University Libraries is pleased to announce that two vending machines (drinks and snacks) have been placed on the first floor of the Walsh Library.