ArticleAuthors: Laura Sare; Stephen Bales; Tina Budzise-Weaver (2021)
This research paper reports the findings of a grounded theory
analysis of undergraduate perceptions of academic libraries
serving their university community. The qualitative researchers
employed long interviews to interview forty-one participants
at various stages in their undergraduate career in order to
determine how they perceive the academic library as an institution.
Three theoretical categories emerged from the data
analysis: (1) Constructing the Academic Library as Geographic
Space, (2) Constructing the Academic Library as Idea, and (3)
Constructing the Library Worker. The researchers found that
participants may simultaneously view the academic library as
physical ge... 
