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Selected Works of Anabel Quan-Haase
Article
Changing Chance Encounters: Historians, Serendipity, and the Digital Text
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI
  • Kim Martin, Western University
  • Anabel Quan-Haase, The University of Western Ontario
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Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Disciplines
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.

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Citation Information
Kim Martin and Anabel Quan-Haase. "Changing Chance Encounters: Historians, Serendipity, and the Digital Text" Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/anabel_quan-haase/8/