Identifying the Resource and Service Needs of Graduate and Professional Students
Identifying the Resource and Service Needs of Graduate and Professional Students
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确定研究生和专业学生的资源和服务需求
DOI：
10.1353/pla.2002.0014
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2002
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Carlette Washington
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Hope Barton;Jim Cheng;L. Clougherty;John W. Forys;Toby Lyles;Dottie Persson;Christine Walters;Carlette Washington
图书馆行业在研究生和专业学生的保留和信息素养方面有着既得利益。最近的研究强调，有必要对研究生使用图书馆以及面向这一群体的服务和资源进行全面研究。爱荷华大学图书馆对研究生和专业学生随机抽样的用户需求评估调查显示，尽管研究生和专业学生来图书馆做研究或使用其他图书馆资源，但很少有人来学习或借书。研究生和专业学生认识到在使用图书馆时需要更多的帮助，并希望有更多的机会接受图书馆的指导。他们更喜欢与人接触。尽管他们对工作人员协助的资源和质量感到满意，但当他们需要时，他们希望在书架上找到更多的资料。此外，他们中的许多人不知道图书馆为他们提供的服务范围。爱荷华大学的主要战略目标之一是维护和支持一流的研究生和专业课程。在休·戴维斯·格雷厄姆和南希·戴蒙德1997年出版的《美国研究型大学的崛起》一书中，在131所公立研究型大学中，爱荷华大学以研究成果的数量和质量为基础，进入了前20名（1997年）。作为爱荷华州仅有的两所公立研究型大学之一，爱荷华大学在研究生和专业教育方面发挥着特殊的作用。在未来的知识密集型世界中，研究生和专业教育将发挥核心作用，鉴于爱荷华州提供此类教育的机会有限，爱荷华大学的这部分使命将随着时间的推移而变得越来越重要。
The library profession has a vested interest in the retention and information literacy of graduate and professional students. Recent research highlights the need for the overall study of graduate student use of the library and of those services and resources geared toward that population. A University of Iowa Libraries' user needs assessment survey of a random sample of graduate and professional students revealed that although graduate and professional students come to the library to do research or to use other library resources, fewer come to study or borrow books. Graduate and professional students recognize the need for more assistance in using the library and would like more opportunities for library instruction. They prefer human contact. Even though they are satisfied with the resources and quality of staff assistance, they would like to find more material on the shelves when they need them. In addition, many of them are unaware of the range of library services available to them. One of the key strategic goals of the University of Iowa is the maintenance and support of premier graduate and professional programs. Among 131 public research universities recently ranked in Hugh Davis Graham's and Nancy Diamond's 1997 book The Rise of the American Research Universities, the University of Iowa ranked among the top 20 based on the quantity and quality of research performance (1997). As one of only two public research universities in the state of Iowa, the University of Iowa has a special role in graduate and professional education. In the knowledge-intensive world of the future, graduate and professional education play a central role, and given the limited opportunities for such education within the state of Iowa, this part of the University of Iowa's mission will increase in importance over time.