Lost in the Library: Are Spatial Skills Important in Shelf Searches?.

Eaton, Gale

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Publication Date: 1991

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Lost in the Library: Are Spatial Skills Important in Shelf Searches?

Eaton, Gale

Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, v5 n1 p77-86 Fall 1991

Discussion of spatial skills focuses on a quasi-experimental field study that was designed to test the possibility that elementary and secondary school library users' success in stack searches could be related to a particular spatial skill, i.e., the ability to solve large-scale mental-rotation and perspective-taking problems. (13 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Dewey Decimal Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Studies, Grade 5, High School Students, Hypothesis Testing, Library Skills, Perspective Taking, Problem Solving, Research Needs, Skill Analysis, Spatial Ability, User Needs (Information)

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