The Use of Libraries by Post-Graduate Distance Learning Students: Whose Responsibility?.

Bolton, Neil; Unwin, Lorna; Stephens, Kate

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ERIC Number: EJ562913

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1998

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The Use of Libraries by Post-Graduate Distance Learning Students: Whose Responsibility?

Bolton, Neil; Unwin, Lorna; Stephens, Kate

Open Learning, v13 n1 p3-8 Feb 1998

A survey of 977 postgraduate distance-learning students in the United Kingdom investigated student perceptions of library needs. This article examines how students felt they were treated, need for libraries, library training (previous experience and nature and extent of training), problems of distance and time, costs for texts and charges for services, and library services. (PEN)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Costs, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Instruction, Library Services, Student Attitudes, Student Surveys, Use Studies, User Needs (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom

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