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Humanists as information users in the digital age: The case of Jewish studies scholars in Israel

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  • Shifra Baruchson‐Arbib
  • Jenny Bronstein

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User studies provide libraries with invaluable insight into their users' information needs and behaviors, allowing them to develop services that correspond to these needs. This insight has become even more important for libraries since the advent of the Internet. The Internet has brought about a development of information technologies and electronic information sources that have had a great impact on both the ways users search for information and the ways libraries manage information. Although humanists represent an important group of users for academic libraries, research studies into their information‐seeking behavior since the advent of the Internet have been quite scarce (Ellis & Oldman, 2005) in the past decade. This study presents updated research on a group of humanists, Jewish studies scholars living in Israel, as information users in the digital age based on two categories: (a) the use of formal and informal information channels, and (b) the use of information technologies and their impact on humanistic research.

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  • Shifra Baruchson‐Arbib & Jenny Bronstein, 2007. "Humanists as information users in the digital age: The case of Jewish studies scholars in Israel," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 58(14), pages 2269-2279, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:58:y:2007:i:14:p:2269-2279
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.20699
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