Showing papers in "Library & Information Science Research in 2018"

TL;DR: A comprehensive account of methods used in library and information science research was conducted using quantitative systematic review and revealed that empirical, descriptive, and quantitative research methodologies were used in that majority of LIS research.

TL;DR: This article found that acceptance of the Framework by librarians has not been universal, implementing the Framework into one-shot information literacy instruction is difficult, and full implementation of the framework may require a restructuring of how information literacy education is approached.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether using qualitative methods (grounded theory, ethnography, and phenomenology) results in an above average impact in library and information science (LIS) articles using any of the three qualitative methods published from 2003 to 2013 and indexed in Web of Science in the category of information science and library science.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the factors influencing the intention of 279 undergraduate students to use e-books at a land-grant university in the southern US and identified eight activities that libraries need to undertake in order to increase the use of ebooks by undergraduate students.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between information literacy (IL) and course-level academic performance and student perceptions of their learning environments and found that students who synthesize information and communicate the results tend to perceive higher levels of motivation than students who do so less often.

TL;DR: This article found that holistic information behavior is more strongly related to social measures of success, whereas their association with quantitative measures tends to be lower, suggesting that holism seems to be a similar factor to task complexity or personality, which influences human information behavior and, for instance, perceptions of relevance.

TL;DR: The growing complexity of information environments calls for a reconsideration of the ways in which grounded theory method is employed within library and information science (LIS). as mentioned in this paper explores the synergies between grounded theory, information literacy and visual research to establish a research agenda for the extension of grounded theory within LIS.

TL;DR: In this paper, a hybrid strategy, historical case study, is proposed to analyze cases from the distant past to the present, using eclectic data sources, in order to produce both idiographic and nomothetic knowledge.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the working practices of scholars engaging in collaborative, international, data-intensive, publicly-funded interdisciplinary research, focusing on innovation, flexibility, failure, translation, intermediaries, divisions of labor and delegation of responsibilities and tasks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed changes in student perceptions of their competency in information literacy after continuous efforts in course curriculum and found that there was a significant increase in students' perception of their familiarity with library resources, search strategies, citation use and ability to evaluate source quality.

TL;DR: A qualitative review using the meta-ethnographic approach was conducted that examined the experiences of academic libraries and provided clarity on contextual influences associated with achievements, as well as illuminating the reasons for deficiencies as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a bibliometric analysis explores the interdisciplinary characteristics of library and information science (LIS) from the perspective of interdisciplinary LIS authors and finds that over half of the articles published by these authors were not LIS-related and were primarily singly-authored articles and articles coauthored by LIS and non-LIS authors.

TL;DR: Although both of the organizations using the ILS were using the same system, there were differences in the activities, sequences, and approaches followed by each one in daily tasks, revealing process mining techniques have already been studied in a wide range of sectors.

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that older adults who identify as readers and choose to read for pleasure in their everyday lives are understudied despite the persistence and pervasiveness of this kind of reading.

TL;DR: Task-centered activities, a type of data collection method used in the field of childhood studies, offer a means of conducting research with children and youth in a manner that builds on their strengths and competencies as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined survey results from academic librarians in Canada on their perceptions and attitudes related to library practices and online privacy behaviors and found that many Canadian academic Librarians believe that protecting patron privacy and educating patrons about issues related to online privacy is important.

TL;DR: This article used critical incident technique to explore how international students complete research assignments and use library and other resources in the process, finding that half of the participants had received some sort of library instruction, but they did not have particularly positive responses to these sessions.

TL;DR: A model that provides a foundation for communication channels and tools selection by agencies in the post-warning response phase of a disaster is established, which could guide agency response communication for different disaster types.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used wayfinding, think aloud protocol (TAP), retrospective think aloud (RTAP), and a wearable camera to study the behavior of a student with ASD and a neurotypical peer navigating their campus library in search of materials.

TL;DR: This study shows how these how the authors done it good projects reflect design methodologies which draw rigor from process, invention, relevance, and extensibility rather than replicability, generalizability, and predictability.

TL;DR: The quality and clarity of health information retrieved from Yahoo!Answers sites showed that 46% of answers were of poor quality, and many Q&A site users were unable to distinguish adequately between high- and low-quality answers.

TL;DR: In this paper, Passini's conceptual framework of wayfinding can be applied to public library patron wayfinding behavior, and participants were asked to think aloud while completing prescribed wayfinding tasks.

TL;DR: College students were invited to an information interaction lab for a session in which they recalled a recently finished task and worked on a to-be-finished task using a computer in the lab, and were asked to complete questionnaires regarding what systems they used to finish their tasks and what features were helpful for searching and for saving information.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored participants' motivations for attending the Inspiring Ireland 1916 public collection day and perceived benefits. And they found that participants' motivation for attending a collection day can be characterised as aligning with individual or communal perception of benefits: A) to share their story and provide evidence in order to influence the contemporary narrative of the 1916 Easter Rising (individual benefit), B) to relieve the burdens of preservation and remembering, C) to find out more about the object or context of the object, and D) sharing their object via the open access features of the

TL;DR: This study investigates the effects of gatekeeping activities on information services and the resulting impact on the value of such services from a user's perspective in an information service environment characterized by online and offline transactions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the motivation of students' autonomous information seeking and its relationship with the amount of effort invested in and enjoyment derived from information seeking, and found that intrinsically motivated students enjoy information seeking more and invest more effort in the activity.

TL;DR: A study of 30 8- to 10-year-old children explored help-seeking behaviors and use of help features when they formulated search queries and evaluated search results in IR systems and suggested help features that they would have liked to have had.

TL;DR: Children and their parents value the Dare to Explore summer reading programme at Auckland Libraries, New Zealand, as a whole but the perceived value of the digital components was not evident.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of 76 LIS-advised dissertations was undertaken to determine whether the disciplinary background of the dissertation adviser influences the citing behaviors of the author.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of gender equality in the context of gender diversity in the media and the role of gender in the development of women's empowerment, and propose a framework for gender equality for women in media.