Learning to search: how people become database searchers Available to Purchase

This article is concerned with how people currently doing database searching learned to search, how they feel about their learning experiences, and what they believe people who are about to begin to search should use as learning methods. The study utilizes a questionnaire sent to over one hundred database searchers (both librarians and end‐users) in Indiana, as being a fairly representative state with a mix of academic, public, and special libraries. There are, in addition, research‐based predictions resulting from the individual responses on how searchers in the future will most probably leam to do database searching. The questionnaire is included as an appendix.