Habits of humanists: scholarly behavior and new information technologies
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This article discusses three characteristics of the behavior of humanists: reluctance to ask questions of reference librarians; regard for influential peers; and concentration on their research specializations to the exclusion of other activities.
Abstract
This article discusses three characteristics of the behavior of humanists: reluctance to ask questions of reference librarians; regard for influential peers; and concentration on their research specializations to the exclusion of other activities. It analyzes each characteristic in relation to important trends in the application of new information technologies to the humanities: communication through electronic mail, machine-readable secondary sources, and use of general bibliographic databases