Part I: AN INTRODUCTION TO INQUIRY. 1. Human Inquiry and Science. 2. Paradigms, Theory, and Research. 3. The Ethics and Politics of Social Research. Part II: THE STRUCTURING OF INQUIRY: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE. 4. Research Design. 5. Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement. 6. Indexes, Scales, and Typologies. 7. The Logic of Sampling. Part III: MODES OF OBSERVATION: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE. 8. Experiments. 9. Survey Research. 10. Qualitative Field Research. 11. Unobtrusive Research. 12. Evaluation Research. Part IV: ANALYSIS OF DATA:QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE . 13. Qualitative Data Analysis. 14. Quantitative Data Analysis. 15. Reading and Writing Social Research. Appendix A. Using the Library. Appendix B. Random Numbers. Appendix C. Distribution of Chi Square. Appendix D. Normal Curve Areas. Appendix E. Estimated Sampling Error.

社会研究方法基础 = The Basics of Social Research

This literature review has focused on smart governance as an emerging domain of study that attracts significant scientific and policy attention. More specifically, this paper aims to provide more insight in the definitions of and relationships between smart governance and concepts such as smart and electronic government, in the context of smart cities. The literature review shows that smart government can be considered as a basis for developing smart governance, through the application of emergent information and communication technologies (ICT) for governing. Smart governance as the intelligent use of ICT to improve decision-making through better collaboration among different stakeholders, including government and citizens, can be strongly related to government approaches. In this case ICT-based tools, such as social media, and openness can be factors that increase citizen engagement and support the development of new governance models for smart government. Smart governance may also have an important role in smart city initiatives, which require complex interactions between governments, citizens and other stakeholders. Based on the literature review, this paper coins a definition of ‘smart city governance’ and contributes to developing a framework for building new, smart governance models addressing the challenges of the digital society, collaborative governance, information sharing, citizen engagement, transparency and openness.

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Smart governance in the context of smart cities: A literature review

What followers are saying about transformational leaders fostering employee innovation via organisational learning, knowledge sharing and social media use in public organisations?

Introduction to Cataloging and Classification

Library Anxiety: Theory, Research and Applications

This bibliometric pilot study presents a modified assessment taxonomy devised originally by Leeder, Markey, and Yakel (2012) and demonstrates how to apply it to assess the resources used in the construction of student academic research papers. Besides discussing this assessment tool, we present empirical data of its application, the result of a pilot study conducted at a medium sized Midwestern American university, based on the analysis of a sample of papers written for a freshman level English composition class. Our findings, among many, demonstrate that just one in 700 academic resources cited in these papers comes from a resource like Wikipedia, and that 52% of resources cited in student papers fall into the five taxonomic category combinations. Besides being used for assessment, this taxonomy may reveal models of information usage in future research.

A model for analyzing and understanding how novice researchers construct source authority

Voter turnout for federal elections in Tennessee is historically lower than in most other states. Public libraries have long been involved in empowering citizens and assisting eligible voters in th...

Providing Voter Registration and Election Information in Libraries: A Survey of Public Libraries in Tennessee

https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/meet.2011.14504801086

Seeking information from government resources: A comparative analysis of two communities' Web searching of municipal government Web sites

Mycommunityinfo.ca offers online community information (CI) by rejecting the traditional CI directory model of excessive metadata. This dynamic and sustainable approach to providing online CI through single window access to local community and three levels of government information sources also offers an unprecedented glimpse into CI needs in Southwestern Ontario. Mycommunityinfo.ca offre de l’information communautaire (IC) virtuelle en rejetant le modele traditionnel des repertoires de l’IC utilisant de nombreuses metadonnees. Cette approche dynamique et renouvelable offrant de l’IC virtuelle, grâce a une fenetre unique pour l’acces a la communaute locale et a trois niveaux de sources d’information gouvernementales, propose egalement une perspective inedite sur les besoins en IC du sud-ouest de l’Ontario.

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Frank P. Lambert

Papers

A model for analyzing and understanding how novice researchers construct source authority

Providing Voter Registration and Election Information in Libraries: A Survey of Public Libraries in Tennessee

Seeking information from government resources: A comparative analysis of two communities' Web searching of municipal government Web sites

The mycommunityinfo.ca Approach to Online Networked Community Information Provision