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      An ethnographic study of technical support workers: why we didn't build a tech support digital library

      Cunningham, Sally Jo; Knowles, Chris; Reeves, Nina
      DOI
       10.1145/379437.379480
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       portal.acm.org
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      Cunningham, S.J., Knowles, C. & Reeves, N. (2001). An ethnographic study of technical support workers: why we didn't build a tech support digital library. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, Roanoke, Virginia, United States (pp. 189-198). New York, NY, USA: ACM.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/4722
      Abstract
      In this paper we describe the results of an ethnographic study of the information behaviourss of university technical support workers and their information needs. The study looked at how the group identified, located and used information from a variety of sources to solve problems arising in the course of their work. The results of the investigation are discussed in the context of the feasibility of developing a potential information base that could be used by all members of the group. Whilst a number of their requirements would easily be fulfilled by the use of a digital library, other requirements would not. The paper illustrates the limitations of a digital library with respect to the information behaviourss of this group of subjects and focuses on why a digital library would not appear to be the ideal support tool for their work.
      Date
      2001
      Type
      Conference Contribution
      Publisher
      ACM
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      • Computing and Mathematical Sciences Papers [1455]
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