How Unique Are Our Users? Comparing Responses Regarding the Information-Seeking Habits of Engineering Faculty

Sarah Robbins is Web Services Coordinator, Debra Engel is Associate Dean of Public Services, and Christina Kulp is Sciences Librarian at University of Oklahoma Libraries; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], respectively. © Sarah Robbins, Debra Engel, and Christina Kulp Studies of information-seeking behaviors are common in the professional literature for library and information studies. This study examines the generalizability of findings of singleinstitution studies to other institutions by performing an institution-to-institution comparison of the results obtained from an information-seeking behavior survey sent to engineering faculty at twenty research institutions.