Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
Leaving the Library to Google the Government: How Academic Patrons Find Government Information
Department
University Libraries
College
University Libraries
Date Range
2012-2013
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities
Abstract
In February 2011, a survey was conducted at 11 academic depository libraries in the United States in an attempt to better understand users awareness of and preferences for government information. The surveys results show that many academic users are bypassing the library when they use government information, preferring to use general search engines, like Google. These results suggest that the current measures for the use of government information aren’t capturing the way users are searching and accessing documents.
Conference Name
ACRL2013
Conference Location
Indianapolis Indiana
ScholarWorks Citation
Psyck, Elizabeth, "Leaving the Library to Google the Government: How Academic Patrons Find Government Information" (2013). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 1091.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/1091
