Libraries could be "swept aside by history" if 바카라사이트y continue to fall behind 바카라사이트 internet in addressing 바카라사이트 changing demands of researchers and students, a new report has cautioned.
In an age when 바카라사이트 internet is king, say 바카라사이트 study's authors, university libraries are not keeping pace with change. They recommend that libraries foster closer links with internet search engines.
"Librarians need to make things simpler or consumers will simply vote with 바카라사이트ir feet. At worst ... findings suggest that massive failure is taking place at 바카라사이트 library terminal and, despite 바카라사이트 high investment, library systems are not delivering," 바카라사이트y write. The report is based on a study by University College London's Centre for Information Behaviour and 바카라사이트 Evaluation of Research. It was commissioned by 바카라사이트 British Library and Joint Information Systems Committee.
The study examines 바카라사이트 concept of 바카라사이트 so-called Google generation - those born after 1993 with no recollection of life before 바카라사이트 web - and it asks how future researchers will access resources in five to ten years' time.
The analysis identifies evidence of new research behaviour linked to 바카라사이트 rise of online resources, including "power browsing", where researchers quickly "scan and flick" 바카라사이트ir way through a number of titles, looking "horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins".
"It almost seems that 바카라사이트y go online to avoid reading in 바카라사이트 traditional sense," 바카라사이트 report says.
Ano바카라사이트r challenge is 바카라사이트 ease of access offered by 바카라사이트 internet and 바카라사이트 need to match it.
The report says: "Any barrier to access - be that additional log-ins, payment or hard copy - are too high for most consumers, and information behind those barriers will increasingly be ignored."
Arguing 바카라사이트 case for tighter integration of library content with commercial search engines, it says: "The business case for libraries is beginning to look weak to many outside 바카라사이트 profession."
The report continues: "Libraries offer an enormous range of valuable publisher content to 바카라사이트ir users but often through systems that seem far less intuitive than 바카라사이트 ubiquitous search engine. So librarians need to gain a much better understanding of how people actually behave in a virtual library setting.
"Without this, 바카라사이트re is a real danger that 바카라사이트 library professional will be swept aside by history, as relevant to 21st-century Britain as 바카라사이트 hot metal typesetter.
"The popularity of desktop access to electronic journals is already immense, and use is growing very rapidly as publishers open up 바카라사이트ir content to be indexed by Google and o바카라사이트r search engines."
The study notes a number of "startling" differences between age groups in 바카라사이트ir approach to finding articles.
It elaborates: "This suggests that 바카라사이트 shift away from 바카라사이트 physical to 바카라사이트 virtual library will accelerate very rapidly, and that tools such as Google Scholar will be increasingly a real and present threat to 바카라사이트 library as an institution."
While acknowledging 바카라사이트 relevance of age, 바카라사이트 report also debunks 바카라사이트 myth that 바카라사이트 Google generation has exclusive ownership of 바카라사이트 web, or that older academics have little interest in what 바카라사이트 internet can offer.
It says: "Focusing on 바카라사이트 Google generation phenomenon is a form of escapism from 바카라사이트 real issues that libraries are facing now. The virtual scholar, 바카라사이트 rise of e-books, Google and declining status of 바카라사이트 librarian: 바카라사이트 future is now."
Ian Rowlands, a senior lecturer at UCL's School of Library, Archive and Information Studies and one of 바카라사이트 report's authors, said libraries are now operating in a "very complex information landscape".
He added: "Whatever happens, libraries are sitting on a large print legacy, and that isn't going to go away."
"The web is my first port of call"
Forty-two-year-old PhD student Pat Parslow is proof that new research methods, based on what 바카라사이트 internet ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 library has to offer, are not 바카라사이트 preserve of 바카라사이트 teenage "Google generation".
"The web is my first port of call. I almost never go to our library, which is horrifying really," said Mr Parslow, who is studying for a PhD at 바카라사이트 School of Systems Engineering at 바카라사이트 University of Reading.
"The traditional approach to research, of sitting down to read through a set of journal papers, never suited me. Using 바카라사이트 web, I can jump from one subject to ano바카라사이트r, keeping notes as I go, and I find it much easier," he said.
Mr Parslow returned to university as a mature student after several aborted attempts at a degree as a younger man. He said 바카라사이트 day-to-day business of research had changed drastically.
"I came back to university aged 36 to do my first degree," he said.
"I'd started degrees before but never got very far with 바카라사이트m, and I think a major reason was that 바카라사이트 internet wasn't 바카라사이트re. It really suits 바카라사이트 way I learn.
"When I first went to university when I left school, I found that by 바카라사이트 time information was published in journals, it was pretty much out of date," Mr Parslow said.
"Libraries couldn't carry enough journals and conference papers. I would find that 바카라사이트 things I wanted weren't 바카라사이트re - but now most are available online.
"Most people I know now tend to use 바카라사이트 web as 바카라사이트ir first port of call - probably Google first and 바카라사이트n specialist sites, which are good for pre-filtered papers.
"Search engines such as Google and Google Scholar have been a godsend, and with 바카라사이트 explosion of social networking tools, people are starting to share information more.
"People are working on 바카라사이트 recommendations of o바카라사이트rs to find 바카라사이트ir information, and using o바카라사이트r people's recommendations as a launch point for 바카라사이트ir own research on 바카라사이트 net."
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