Navigators and guides: the value of peer assistance in student use of electronic library facilities

Abstract

States that in 2001 the University of Cape Town (UCT) Libraries opened a new and integrated learning centre based on the “information commons” concept fairly common in the USA today and first encountered at the Leavey Library of the University of Southern California. Discusses the results of a series of interviews with student assistants working in the Knowledge Commons, in an attempt to provide an evaluation of the impact of this resource on teaching and learning at UCT. Concludes that the study has confirmed the importance of most of the unique features of the information commons as discussed in the literature.

Citation

de Jager, K. (2004), "Navigators and guides: the value of peer assistance in student use of electronic library facilities", VINE, Vol. 34 No. 3, pp. 99-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/03055720410563450