Scholar's Playground or Wisdom's Temple? Competing Metaphors in a Library Electronic Text Center.

Smith, Moira; Yachnes, Paul

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Publication Date: 1998

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Scholar's Playground or Wisdom's Temple? Competing Metaphors in a Library Electronic Text Center.

Smith, Moira; Yachnes, Paul

Library Trends, v46 n4 p718-31 Spr 1998

Describes a qualitative ethnographically informed case study of an electronic text center in a large academic library designed to reveal the underlying metaphors that library staff and patrons used in thinking about electronic texts. It draws upon theories from cognitive anthropology concerning metaphors and mental scripts. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Electronic Text, Ethnography, Higher Education, Library Personnel, Metaphors, Qualitative Research, Users (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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