Showing papers in "Library & Information Science Research in 1993"

TL;DR: A review of the literature shows that the number of research projects in information retrieval (IR) that employ qualitative methods is on the rise as mentioned in this paper and that qualitative research is noncontrolling, holistic and case oriented, about processes, open and flexible, diverse in methods, humanistic, inductive, and scientific.

TL;DR: A series of studies explored the effects of domain expertise and search expertise in hypertext or full-text CD-ROM databases to investigate how highly interactive electronic access to primary information affects information seeking.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the methodological impact of various ways of allotting credit for multi-authored works and the relationships between multiple authorship and other publication variables, such as quality and impact.

TL;DR: A survey of 141 lesbians in a metropolitan area of North Carolina found that during the initial stages of identity acceptance, when individuals may not have access to the lesbian community, the library is used heavily as an information resource.

TL;DR: A New Zealand study on public library effectiveness duplicates the Childers and Van House (1989; Van House & Childers, 1990) research, which examined the multiple constituency model of organizational effectiveness as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: There is a need for greater awareness among LIS professionals of keeping their citations error free, and other aspects of the subject for further study are suggested.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of mentoring in the lives of one group of academic women-women faculty in library and information science during the past five decades is examined. But the focus of the study was not on gender, but on the importance of perceptions, beliefs, and values.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the function, form, and major attributes of a problem statement and provide a list of possible items to include when writing a Problem Statement, as well as a discussion of the purpose, content, and form of the statement.

TL;DR: Findings from a study are presented that describes and assesses key issues affecting the role of public libraries in the evolving national electronic networked environment and recommends roles and strategies for the public library if it is to flourish in the networking environment.

TL;DR: This paper examined 855 LIS-relevant document surrogates retrieved from 32 databases and categorized them according to whether they were written by persons working inside or outside library and information science (LIS), and whether they are published outside the LIS literature.

TL;DR: Overall, respondents expressed more willingness to use ILL than a commercial service, and several factors such as the price of the document, the speed of delivery, and the method of ordering the document varied from question to question.

TL;DR: An analysis of journal articles appearing in five journals over a 2-year period suggests that public librarians and library and information science (LIS) educators who publish in these journals communicate with each other through this formal information-dissemination system.

TL;DR: The logical reasoning ability of end users of a CD-ROM index was tested, and associations between different levels of this ability and aspects of retrieval performance were assessed.

TL;DR: The results reveal diversity in the views of long-range planning by staff members, and suggest that each library's planning process was highly conditioned by the organizational culture of each library and the library's environment as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated if the act frequency approach (AFA) used in psychological research to identify behaviors associated with certain dispositions, might clarify the work behavior of librarians.