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Thursday, June 20 • 2:15pm - 3:00pm
Documenting the Information Needs of Students and Faculty for ATS Standards

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This presentation will compare several methods for determining whether seminary library databases are meeting the information needs of students and faculty. Reports of low usage of online databases have persisted since the beginning of online databases. However, the accuracy of these reports is questionable. Here, I illustrate a very direct method of accessing usage, i.e., student papers, and compare them to available statistical reports from database vendors. The purpose is to help seminary libraries respond to Standard 6.5 for the Association of Theological Schools, which asks that we document that the informational needs of students are being met.
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Ed Hughes

Director of Library Services, Memphis Theological Seminary - Library
I have worked in both academic and public libraries since the early 1980s. I started my current position as Director in January 2020. I started in academia but left in 2000 because I was certain that everything in university and college libraries would shortly move to an entirely... Read More →

Thursday June 20, 2024 2:15pm - 3:00pm PDT
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