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"My Second Home": Why Undergraduate Women in STEM Use Academic Libraries.
- Source :
- Portal: Libraries & the Academy; Jan2023, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p197-214, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Few women major in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields at the undergraduate level. Given the drive to attract and retain students in general, and women in STEM in particular, educational institutions need to know what resources and services might help support these students in their work. This study seeks to provide a better understanding of how undergraduate women in STEM use the academic library. The study involved focus groups and interviews with women at a research-intensive university in the United States. Grounded theory principles provided a basis for analysis of the collected conversations. The findings from this study indicate that undergraduate women in STEM depend on the academic library as a quiet place to study where there are few distractions and technology is easily available. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FOCUS groups
SOCIAL support
ACADEMIC libraries
GROUNDED theory
CONVERSATION
LIBERTY
DISTRACTION
INTERVIEWING
UNDERGRADUATES
ENGINEERING
MATHEMATICS
UNDERGRADUATE programs
QUALITATIVE research
EXPERIENCE
PSYCHOLOGY of women
UNIVERSITIES & colleges
PUBLIC spaces
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
TECHNOLOGY
SCIENCE
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15312542
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Portal: Libraries & the Academy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 162535294
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2023.0003