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- Creators: Edens, Wes
- Creators: Bernard, Simone Vanessa
- Creators: Goul, Kenneth M
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Ample evidence exists to support the conclusion that enterprise search is failing its users. This failure is costing corporate America billions of dollars every year. Most enterprise search engines are built using web search engines as their foundations. These search engines are optimized for web use and are inadequate when used inside the firewall. Without the ability to use popularity-based measures for ranking documents returned to the searcher, these search engines must rely on full-text search technologies. The Information Science literature explains why full-text search, by itself, fails to adequately discriminate relevant from irrelevant documents. This failure in discrimination results in far too many documents being returned to the searcher, which causes enterprise searchers to abandon their searches in favor of re-creating the documents or information they seek. This dissertation describes and evaluates a potential solution to the problem of failed enterprise search derived from the Information Science literature: subject-aided search. In subject-aided search, full-text search is augmented with a search of subject metadata coded into each document based upon a hierarchically structured subject index. Using the Design Science methodology, this dissertation develops and evaluates three IT artifacts in the search for a solution to the wicked problem of enterprise search failure.
ContributorsSchymik, Gregory (Author) / St. Louis, Robert (Thesis advisor) / Goul, Kenneth M (Committee member) / Santanum, Raghu (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2012
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University students face an information landscape that is overburdened with the proliferation of information as a result of increased and improved technology. Students will be better able to navigate such information overload only if they are information literate enough. Being information literate is having the ability to utilize information effectively and ethically. Information literacy has become a critical aspect of higher education in ensuring that students develop skills and attitudes to access information effectively, efficiently, and ethically. This study investigates a way to systematically integrate information literacy instruction into the undergraduate curriculum of a university through alignment with an established framework. This mixed methods study adopted an action research approach to explore the situating of information literacy into the curriculum. Action research is about the repeated application of results and findings to a specific problem of practice in a specific context. The iterative process of action research allowed for three cycles of research which culminated into an information literacy intervention aligned to the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education that resulted in changed student perceptions of their information literacy self-efficacy, skills, and abilities, all of which has the potential to translate into a changed undergraduate student learning experience.
ContributorsBernard, Simone Vanessa (Author) / Thompson, Nicole (Thesis advisor) / Basile, Carole (Committee member) / Kammerlocher, Lisa (Committee member) / Ross, Lydia (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2023
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Research on library-related perceptions and attitudes of MBA students is lacking, leading the authors of this article to survey a cohort of incoming MBA students at Arizona State University. The survey included self-evaluation of research skills, anticipated uses of library services and resources, and specific types of data/information the students thought would be most valuable during their studies. The survey uncovered differences based on how long the students had been away from higher education. The results are useful for business librarians and others working with graduate business students.
ContributorsEdens, Wes (Author) / Leaming Malecki, Allison (Author)
Created2020-07-30
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Academic library spaces and services have widely broadened their missions away from providing only traditional research services and quiet spaces for study. Today, academic libraries are increasingly repurposing space and redesigning services to become the hub of innovation on university campuses. The literature explores entrepreneurship and academic libraries from many perspectives but with a common theme of the library as a leader in support for entrepreneurship initiatives on campus.
ContributorsEdens, Wes (Author) / Leaming Malecki, Allison (Author)
Created2020-05-29