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Shannon M. Staley is the Web Technology Lead in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library at San Jose State University; e-mail:Shannon.Staley@sjsu.edu.	


	

	


	





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		Academic Subject Guides: A Case Study of Use at San José State University

	Shannon M. Staley

	

			
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		Subject guides are lists of resources created to assist students with their research needs. While academic librarians ascribe great importance to subject guide development, it is difficult to tell whether students find them useful. A review of the literature reveals a lack of user-centered data in this area. This study investigates students’ use of subject guides in three areas of study—Nursing, Journalism & Mass Communications, and Organization & Management. Results indicate that students who have received library instruction tend to use subject guides more frequently and find them useful.


		

	
	
				
			
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	DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.68.2.119


        		
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