(educause.edu): Researchers at the Information School at the University of Washington released an important and thought-provoking report in late 2009: "Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age." The study confirms and expands on the results of other reports. Its particular value is the size of the population studied, the diversity of institutions represented, and the use of both a survey and follow-up interviews for data collection. The findings are troubling. College students think of information seeking as a rote process and tend to use the same small set of information resources no matter what question they have.
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