Kate Mercer and Rachel Figueiredo, Liaison Librarians will present on the following:
Information seeking behavior is expressed in various forms, but at its core is the process of collecting, receiving, and discriminating amongst information. There is bourgeoning increase in the generation of information as well as an increasing difficulty in determining what is a good, legitimate source. These concerns are intensified in technical fields, where emphasis is placed on finding current and relevant information over waiting for traditional information publishing processes to provide pre-vetted quality information. Resultantly, it has become very difficult for the information seekers, particularly those in engineering, to effectively access, evaluate, and use of information in various formats. From the perspective of people who guide access to information, and instruct in what makes a credible source a lack of awareness in exactly how engineering students are seeking information is a barrier to developing the most beneficial curricular and co-curricular educational programming.
