Serving the Needs of Performing Arts Students: A Case Study

Mayer, Jennifer

doi:10.1353/pla.2015.0036

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“…It is possible that music students prefer to use simple searches rather than sophisticated search methods that are available through library catalogs and databases. This is consistent with findings by Jennifer Mayer 38 in which focus groups of performing-arts students agreed that commercial websites, such as iTunes, were more user-friendly than library databases. Kirstin Dougan 39 also found that students found the lack of scope limitations in resources such as YouTube to be attractive to music students' search methodology, particularly when searching for music with which they were not already knowledgeable.…”

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confidence: 89%

University Music Students’ Choice of Music Listening Sources: Use of Library Resources as Compared with Non-Academic Streaming Services

Czeisel

Smith

2020

Music Reference Services Quarterly

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The rise of streaming services and decline of analog media have affected academic music libraries in their traditional role as a resource of listening materials. This study examines the listening-source preferences of college-level music students across multiple institutions through a survey in which students compared electronic commercial streaming services and both electronic and analog library multimedia collections to determine the factors that lead to the use of one source over the other. Findings indicate a strong preference for commercial streaming services over library materials, emphasizing the importance of convenience. However, the perceived quality of library materials remains high among participants.

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Section: Advantages Of Streaming Servicessupporting

confidence: 89%

University Music Students’ Choice of Music Listening Sources: Use of Library Resources as Compared with Non-Academic Streaming Services

Czeisel

Smith

2020

Music Reference Services Quarterly

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“…The questionnaire was prepared in English, and the survey questions were drawn from the prior literature (Dukic et al , 2015; Ko et al, 2015; Lo et al , 2016). The selection and modification of the survey items were based on the expected information needs of these students according to the literature (Lo, 2016; Mayer 2015; Medaille, 2010) and were performed by a panel of researchers, and a pre-test was performed using student participants for fine-tuning the wordings used in the survey. The final survey contained three parts.…”

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Exploring the mobile learning needs amongst performing arts students

Fan¹,

Lo²,

et al. 2020

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Purpose This paper aims to study the information needs and online information-seeking behaviors on mobile platforms of performing arts students at a college level. Design/methodology/approach Survey instruments were used to collect data from performing arts students at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts (HKAPA), a metropolitan’s major performing arts tertiary institution. Data collected were analyzed through descriptive statistics and other statistical methods, and the music-related students were compared with the production-related students. Findings The result reveals that performing arts students all owned their mobile devices and often used mobile apps for non-academic purposes, but they did not often use mobile library services or read online academic contents with their mobile devices. The participants considered inadequate signal coverage, slow loading time, difficulty in reading on a mobile device and the lack of specialized mobile apps as more significant barriers affecting their usage. There are some significant differences between the music-related and production-related student groups in that music-related students watched lectures on the library websites and used electronic music scores more often than the production-related students. Practical implications This study contributes to the input for enhancements and policies to future mobile services and facilities of performing art libraries. Originality/value There have been scant studies on the mobile learning needs of performing arts students, especially in Asia.

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“…Jennifer Mayer surveys performing arts students in an effort to understand how their interdisciplinary work in music, dance, and other fields complicates their relationship to library resources. 14 In her treatment of collection mapping for urban studies, Linda Wadas insists on the importance of understanding the field, its history, and its conceptual considerations to build responsive, flexible collections. 15 Masha Misco addresses the issue of librarians charged with interdisciplinary fields in a paradigm of subject liaisonship.…”

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The Interdisciplinary Academic Library: A Medical Humanities Case Study

Kasten-Mutkus¹,

Saragossi²

2021

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This paper sets out to identify the ways in which academic libraries can further interdisciplinary scholarship on campus. The medical humanities is presented as an example to interrogate the current practices in academic libraries and to inform future efforts in support of interdisciplinarity. Text mining was employed to illuminate trends in this interdisciplinary field using program descriptions from universities with "very high research activity" as a data set for analysis. Based on these data, this article proposes best practices and opportunities for engagement in the medical humanities that may be applicable to other interdisciplinary fields served by research libraries.

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Serving the Needs of Performing Arts Students: A Case Study

Cited by 13 publications

References 13 publications

University Music Students’ Choice of Music Listening Sources: Use of Library Resources as Compared with Non-Academic Streaming Services

University Music Students’ Choice of Music Listening Sources: Use of Library Resources as Compared with Non-Academic Streaming Services

Exploring the mobile learning needs amongst performing arts students

The Interdisciplinary Academic Library: A Medical Humanities Case Study

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