Changing Chance Encounters: Historians, Serendipity, and the Digital Text

Authors

Kim Martin, Western University
Anabel Quan-Haase, The University of Western OntarioFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2014

Journal

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI

Abstract

Twenty academic historians in Southern Ontario were interviewed about their use of e-books and the role of serendipity in their research. A central theme that surfaced from the grounded theory analysis was that their use of digital tools and texts is limiting their opportunity for a chance encounter with information.

Notes

Published by Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI