...Rachel Volentine; Carol Tenopir Purpose The purpose of this paper is to ask: What is the value and outcome of scholarly reading for academic staff? How do academic library collections support research and teaching activities of academic staff? How do reading patterns of articles, books, and other...

... will seek to read the genre, nor that non‐African American readers would not be interested in reading it. As he states, “race could be among a variety of factors why a patron would want to enjoy reading Black fiction” (p. xv). There is a considerable body of research into the use and value...

...Carol Tenopir; Donald W. King; Sheri Edwards; Lei Wu Purpose By tracking the information‐seeking and reading patterns of science, technology, medical and social science faculty members from 1977 to the present, this paper seeks to examine how faculty members locate, obtain, read, and use scholarly...

... an investigation into the time spent online viewing full‐text articles in order to get a clearer understanding of the significance of full‐text viewing, especially in regard to reading. Findings The main findings are that there is a great deal of variety amongst scholars in their full‐text viewing habits...