Developing Humanities Collections in the Digital Age: Exploring Humanities Faculty Engagement with Electronic and Print Resources

Sarah Buck Kachaluba is Humanities Librarian at Florida State University; e-mail: sbuckkachaluba@fsu. edu. Jessica Evans Brady is Visual and Performing Arts Librarian at Florida State University; e-mail: [email protected]. Jessica Critten is First Year Programs Librarian at University of West Georgia; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2014 Sarah Buck Kachaluba, Jessica Evans Brady, and Jessica Critten, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC This article is based on quantitative and qualitative research examining humanities scholars’ understandings of the advantages and disadvantages of print versus electronic information resources. It explores how humanities’ faculty members at Florida State University (FSU) use print and electronic resources, as well as how they perceive these different formats. It was carried out with the goal of assisting the authors and other librarians in choosing between electronic and print formats when performing collection development responsibilities.