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Permanent URL	http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/487
Title	Federated Searching: Do Undergraduates Prefer It and Does It Add Value?
BYU Creator	Belliston, C. Jeffrey Howland, Jared L. Roberts, Brian C.
Keywords	Academic libraries; BYU; federated searching
Description/Abstract	Randomly selected undergraduates at Brigham Young University, Brigham Young University Idaho and Brigham Young University Hawaii, all private universities sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, participated in a study of federated searching. This paper reports the study results including differences in time spent between searching databases in federated and non-federated fashion, satisfaction with citations gathered using each method, preference between methods, and quality of citations retrieved by each method judged by two different rubrics. Undergraduates rated their satisfaction with the citations gathered by federated searching 6.5% higher than their satisfaction using non-federated search methods. Additionally, 70% of undergraduates at the participating schools prefer federated searching and saved time using a federated search compared to a non-federated search. Which search method yields higher citation quality was ultimately indeterminable. The study sheds light on assumptions about federated searching and may interest librarians in different types of academic institutions given the diversity of the three institutions studied.
Source	Sailing into the Future: Charting our Destiny: Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, March 29-April 1, 2007, Baltimore Maryland, pp. 103-113.;
Publisher	Association of College and Research Libraries
Date Original	2007-04
Language	English eng en
Publication Type	Conference Presentations
Type	Text
Format	application/pdf
Owning Institution	Brigham Young University
BYU College	Harold B. Lee Library
Copyright Status	(c) 2007 Association of College and Research Libraries;
Copyright Use Information	http://www.lib.byu.edu/generic_copyright.html

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