Showing papers in "Library & Information Science Research in 2014"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the results of two studies: librarians' RDS practices in U.S. and Canadian academic research libraries, and the RDS-related library policies in those or similar libraries.

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual analysis of how emotions and feelings are characterized as motivators for information seeking draws on the appraisal theories suggesting that emotions motivate individuals by triggering action readiness to approach or avoid sources of information.

TL;DR: In this article, the Spearman's correlation rank test is used to examine the association between scholars' social capital measures and their citation-based performance, which suggests that the collaborative process involves social capital embedded within relationships and network structures among direct coauthors.

TL;DR: The findings show that researchers from less developed countries such as India and China compared to those in developed countries, such as the USA and UK (very high HDI) are more reliant on external factors and those criteria that are related to authority, brand and reputation,such as authors' names, affiliation, country and journal name.

TL;DR: Twitter uses by six large academic libraries and factors that make library tweets useful are explored, showing that tweets related to study support services and building and maintaining connections with the library community were the most frequently retweeted and selected as favorites.

TL;DR: In this paper, structural equation modeling (SEM) is used to examine the effects of different facets of job satisfaction on the task performance and contextual performance of university librarians.

TL;DR: Tveit, A. K., et al. as discussed by the authors presented the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Library & Information Science Research (LISR).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the characteristics of online museum visitors' web search behavior and found that metadata elements on factual object related information, provenience, and historic context were indicated to be relevant by the majority of the respondents, characterising the group of special interest museum visitors as information hungry.

TL;DR: The use of non-parametric frontier methods, namely free disposal hull (FDH) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) is presented as an alternative technique for benchmarking the performance of organizations in relative terms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored whether there are differences between information professionals' and library and information science students' perspectives towards e-books, and to what extent the TAM, as well as other personal characteristics such as threat, challenge, and motivation, explain information professionals" and LIS students" perspectives.

TL;DR: The interview to the double (ITTD) technique is described and its potential and limitations are also considered in relation to information literacy research.

TL;DR: In this article, a new type of card-sorting technique was developed to elicit participants' judgments regarding the relative usefulness of different sources and types of diabetes related information at different points in time along their journeys with the disease.

TL;DR: This study uses LibQUAL + responses from undergraduates at a public, comprehensive university to test three-factor, two-Factor, and one-factor models of user perceptions of library service quality, and adds to the literature the unique perspective of residual analysis and builds theoretical arguments in the interpretation of the final model.

TL;DR: Structural equation modeling was used to explore influencing factors and the relationships among them, based on 353 responses to survey questionnaires regarding academic DLs in China, showing that information providing services, information retrieval services, and individual services are direct influencing factors.

TL;DR: The theoretical foundations and application of CA approaches from nursing scholarship are described and an abbreviated case of its application to usage is presented, a concept of interest to the LIS community.

TL;DR: The authors used social capital theory as a framework for understanding how information exchange is facilitated in online investor forums and found that explicitly stating personal experience or lack of personal experience affects the quantity and quality of ensuing discussion and information exchange.

TL;DR: A subject analysis of 5195 publications in library and information science (LIS) research in Pakistan over a period of 62 years revealed that the majority of Pakistani LIS research focused on a few subject areas as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This article analyzed the arguments that book challengers employed to justify the removal, relocation, or restriction of books in 13 challenge cases in public libraries and schools across the United States between 2007 and 2011.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the abilities of three new school librarians trained in cooperative inquiry and leadership to engage in collaborative problem solving for technology-related school challenges and found that participants experienced various levels of success with their challengers.

TL;DR: Interestingly different from the collaborative design nature of the social bookmarking systems, the study finds that participants, particularly experienced academic users, prefer to create and use their own bookmarks rather than sharing bookmarks created by others.

TL;DR: A closer analysis of the discourse in the professional media regarding these two controversies, one that investigates the mechanisms underlying the changes in attitudes and practice, reveals that any similarities are primarily cosmetic as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The focus group aimed specifically to gain consensus on the top five key barriers for research engagement in the UK health librarianship, and the main findings indicated that barriers to research engagement are mainly contextualised within research addressing key matters for the profession of health librarian, whilst priorities were mainly contextualized within the role librarian has in supporting the research of the health professionals to whom they provide library services as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Results show that in comparison to the disciplines in the control group, LIS articles in Chinese journals indicated a strong preference for citing Internet sources, and this preference is increasing.

TL;DR: In this research the information intents theory was used to discover what happens when online LIS graduate students exchange and use information in threaded discussions, providing insight for LIS education, instructional design, and other disciplines that utilize distance education technologies.