Showing papers in "Library & Information Science Research in 2000"

TL;DR: In this paper, five participants completed retrospective and concurrent verbal protocols (Think Afters and Think Alouds) to evaluate the methods for the study of the information-seeking processes of 12-15-year-old students using Microsoft Encarta 98.

TL;DR: This paper used content analysis to examine the information needs and uses literature published 1984-1989, and 1995-1998, and made comparisons with similar analyses previously published for the period 1990-1994.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the reasons that adult learners in Iceland gave for wanting to learn about the Internet and their attitudes to it, and found that participants found the Internet interesting and useful, with positive advantages over other media.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine face-to-face and online focus group modes through a review of actual research experiences using the two approaches and draw comparisons as to similarities and contrasts in methodology, group dynamics, and group communication.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored information needs and seeking behavior of Malaysian agricultural scientists and found that research scientists spent 16% of their office time on reading and literature searching, whereas academicians spent 9.3 % of their time for this purpose.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored SERVQUAL score validity in the library service context using data from 596 users representing three user groups and measurement at three times over six years.

TL;DR: This article demonstrates how goal programming techniques can be used to provide an optimal allocation solution within the context of conflicting and incommensurate goals.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the experience of using the log file data to understand user behavior in the SuperJournal project, addressing methodological and analytical issues that may have wider relevance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the nature of e-mail classification and documented the emergence of a high utility, multi-stage, classification process, which leads to stored knowledge.

TL;DR: In this paper, the analysis of two subscription lists with a combined total of over 830 personal subscribers and 855 messages sent to the Library/Information Science Education Forum (JESSE) over a 20-month period suggests that gender has important implications in the practice of computer-mediated communication.

TL;DR: An ethnographic study was designed to understand the nature and the role of public library service in a specific context using mostly the theoretical frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu and Anthony Giddens as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on a nationwide unobtrusive evaluation of government documents reference service at public and academic depository libraries in Canada and report that depository library staff provided complete answers to questions 29.3% of the time.

TL;DR: A previous survey revealed that only 3% of Canada's regional and county library systems provided public Internet access as discussed by the authors, despite the geographical, technical, and financial difficulties faced by systems with large geographical areas and numerous members from different municipal or county jurisdictions Library directors indicated that using the World Wide Web as a reference tool was the most useful staff application of the Internet and that this function was most appreciated in small branches located far from adequate reference collections.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the role of a public interest group, Canada's Coalition for Public Information (CPI), in the federal information policy-making process for the information highway and concluded that CPI exercised little influence over policy outcomes.

TL;DR: This article looked at the fiction purchases of public libraries in the United States which are members of OCLC by type of publisher in the period 1994-1997, and then compared these purchases with those of Barnes & Noble bookstores.