Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Publication Title
Collaborative Librarianship
ISSN
1943-7528
Volume
9
Issue
4
Abstract
Research on students’ educational experiences demonstrates the importance of a holistic understanding of the complexity of students’ lives to developing library programs, services, and resources that effectively address undergraduate needs. The “A Day in the Life” (ADITL) project investigated a typical day for over 200 students at eight diverse institutions in the US. Examining the local and individual expressions of student taskscapes – the ensemble of interrelated social activities across time and space – placed each student’s relationship to their library in a larger description of their academic and personal lives. By exploring the whole student experience, this multi-site ethnographic study mapped out a more complete, complex, and diverse cartography of college students’ lives and the library’s place in it.
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Recommended Citation
Asher, Andrew; Amaral, Jean; Couture, Juliann; Fister, Barbara; Lanclos, Donna; Lowe, M. Sara; Regalado, Mariana; and Smale, Maura A., "Mapping Student Days: Collaborative Ethnography and the Student Experience" (2018). University Libraries Faculty & Staff Contributions. 148.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/libr_facpapers/148