Students Use More Books after Library Instruction: An Analysis of Undergraduate Paper Citations

[Eugene Garfield]

Students Use More Books after Library Instruction: An Analysis of 
Undergraduate Paper Citations

Author(s): Cooke, R (Cooke, Rachel); Rosenthal, D (Rosenthal, Danielle)
Source: COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES  Volume: 72  Issue: 4  Pages: 332-
343  Published: JUL 2011  

Abstract: In fall 2008, students from first-year Composition I and upper-level 
classes at Florida Gulf Coast University participated in a citation analysis study. 
The citation pages of their research papers revealed that the students used 
more books, more types of sources, and more overall sources when a librarian 
provided instruction. When these results were compared to those produced by 
students in upper-level classes (all of whom received instruction), it was 
discovered that, as the class level increased, the number of citations and the 
percentage of scholarly citations generally increased and there was a high 
preference for books from all disciplines, especially history.

Language: English
Document Type: Article
Addresses: [Cooke, R; Rosenthal, D] Florida Gulf Coast Univ, Ft Myers, FL USA
Reprint Address: Cooke, R (reprint author), Florida Gulf Coast Univ, Ft Myers, FL 
USA

E-mail Address: rcooke at fgcu.edu, drosenth at fgcu.edu
ISSN: 0010-0870
URL: http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2010/08/12/crl-90.short