Using focus group interviewing, this article explores the views of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) librarians about the literature of library and information science. The article touches on how these librarians do their literature searches and conveys their opinions about the professional literature. In conducting literature searches for work-related activities and the preparation of conference papers and manuscripts for journal submission, they tend to search the literature selectively for timely articles.
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Hernon et al. (1992) studied this question.