Your Library as a Research Tool
Author: Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.). Library
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 64
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Author: Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.). Library
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joel Herndon
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Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781783304608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers the current environment for data driven research, instruction, and consultation from a variety of faculty and library perspectives and suggests strategies for engaging with the tools and methods of data driven research.
Author: Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.). Library
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 54
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.). Library Branch
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 47
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Streatfield
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Published: 2012-12-23
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1856048128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssessing impact is increasingly critical to the survival of services: managers now require comprehensive information about effectiveness, especially in relation to users. Outlining a rigorously tested approach to library evaluation and offering practical tools and highly relevant examples, this book enables LIS managers to get to grips with the slippery concept of service impact and to address their own impact questions in their planning. The 2nd edition is fully updated to include international approaches to qualitative library evaluation, new international research, and current debates on the evolving nature of evaluation, as well as reflections on the importance of involving stakeholders and of evaluation to guide advocacy. Key topics include: • The demand for evidence • Getting to grips with impact • The research base of this work • Putting the impact into planning • Getting things clear: objectives • Success criteria and impact indicators: how you know you are making a difference • Making things happen: activities and process indicators • Thinking about evidence • Gathering and interpreting evidence • Taking stock, setting targets and development planning • Doing national or international evaluation • Where do we go from here? Readership: Practising library and information service managers and policy makers in the field. LIS policy shapers and managers in public, education (schools, further and higher education), health and special libraries and information services working in any country or internationally and people engaged in professional education in the field such as lecturers or students.
Author: Caitlin Gerrity
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2024-06-13
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1440880220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA concise manual for professionals in the field, this book helps librarians master the skills to conduct, interpret, and analyze their own original research. Many working librarians discover that original research would help them advocate for their libraries, but some graduate programs teach only limited research skills. Designed for all librarians, this book is a practical guide to engaging with the research process, from identifying a problem to sharing findings with others. Authors Caitlin Gerrity and Scott Lanning have packed this introductory guide and reference book with short, to-the-point information that librarians will refer to often at all stages of a research project. From research ethics to statistical significance and everything in between, this primer is the point-of-need resource for librarians in public, academic, and school libraries who wish to use original research to support the profession.
Author: Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster
Publisher: Champaign, IL : University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robin Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2018-12-01
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1440861080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInstead of using expensive off-the-shelf surveys or relying on a poorly worded survey, read Making Surveys Work for Your Library and design your own that collect actionable data. Library listservs and websites are littered with examples of surveys that are too long, freighted with complex language, and generally poorly designed. The survey, however, is a widely used tool that has great potential if designed well. Libraries can implement surveys for a variety of purposes, including planning, program evaluation, collection development, and space design. Making Surveys Work for Your Library: Guidance, Instructions, and Examples offers librarians a contemporary and practical approach to creating surveys that answer authentic questions about library users. Miller and Hinnant have experience designing, deploying, and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data from large-scale, web-based user surveys of library patrons as well as smaller survey instruments targeted to special populations. Here, they offer library professionals a guide to developing—and examples of—concise surveys that gather the data they need to make evidence-based decisions, define the scope of future research, and understand their patrons.
Author: Carol Smallwood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 144224691X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCarol Smallwood's The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries, Volume 1: Instruction, Administration, and Staff Productivity explores how Google's suite of tools, from Google Docs (now Google Drive), Google Scholar, Hangout, Forms, and others made freely available to the Internet Community can be used by libraries to expand the role of digital operations in the management of library materials, to communicate with their patrons and collaborators, to exploit the resources on the Web, and many others. The book has 29 chapters organized into sections that focus on ways that Google’s suite of tools can be applied to address problems in a specific area of library concern. The section headings are: Library Instruction for Users; Collaboration within and among libraries; Library Administration; Collection Management; and Library Productivity. In each topical area, the chapters show how librarians are taking advantage of these tools to change the way that their library works. All of this without the burden of an additional bill to pay. Through these carefully selected case studies from real libraries, you will be able to learn about the surprising and powerful potential that exists through Google tools to improve library operations.
Author: Erik T. Mitchell
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2013-08-14
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 0838958966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComputers increasingly collect, manage, and analyze data for scholarly research. Linked data gives libraries the ability to support this e-research, making it a powerful tool. Libraries are at a tipping point in adoption of linked data, and this issue of Library Technology Reports explores current research in linked open data, explaining concepts and pioneering services, such as Five building blocks of metadata—data model, content rules, metadata schema, data serialization, and data exchange Three case studies—Europeana, Digital Public Library of America, and BIBFRAME How libraries, archives and museums are currently addressing such issues as metadata quality, open data and business models, cross community engagement, and implementation