Using qualitative methods in action research : how librarians can get to the why of data

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Using qualitative methods in action research : how librarians can get to the why of data

Douglas Cook and Lesley Farmer, editors

Association of College and Research Libraries, c2011

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Qualitative research and the librarian / Lesley Farmer
  • The recursive cycle of qualitative action research / Douglas Cook
  • Getting ready to turn your everyday work into meaningful inquiry : foundational literature in qualitative and action research / Cordelia Zinskie and Judi Repman
  • Teaching alone and together : a narrative inquiry / Roberta Tipton and Patricia Bender
  • Understanding social networking : the benefit of discourse analysis / Mariaelena Bartesaghi and Ardis Hanson
  • Remote and rural voices : using interviews to understand the information literacy experience of Alaskan special educators / Jennifer Diane Ward and Thomas Scott Duke
  • Observing relationship building in the library instruction classroom : peer observation and consultation / Carolyn L. Cook and Karla M. Schmit
  • Content analysis : deconstructing intellectual packages / Penny M. Beile
  • Using focus groups to understand user needs and forge new directions / Michael Weber and Robert Flatley
  • Performance-based self-assessment of a library liaison program using a rubric / Aaron Dobbs and Doug Cook
  • Analyzing LibQUAL+ comments to inform library decision making / David A. Nolfi and Laverna M. Saunders
  • Design and analysis challenges in a multicampus research study / Robin Brown and Willis C. Walker
  • Approaching information literacy qualitatively / Janice Krueger
  • The reference interview in real time and in virtual time / Isabelle Flemming and Lesley Farmer
  • Seeing is learning : the synergy of visual literacy / Alessia Zanin-Yost
  • Collective action : qualitative methods for library collection development / LeRoy Jason LaFleur
  • An enduring epistemology of practice / David Carr

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While quantitative research provides librarians with calculations and metrics of effectiveness, qualitative research, in its exploration of assumptions, value, and opinion, makes possible a deeper understanding of the subtleties of user interaction with library services and collections. This volume explains the basic tenets of qualitative research in an easily understandable fashion, and details action research projects that academic librarians can undertake with their patrons. Part 1 provides a theoretical and practical overview of the process of qualitative and action research. Part 2 includes reports of a number of research projects on fairly common problems found in libraries. The final section of the book includes examples of qualitative research and assessment focused on such topics of the day as information literacy. This book is appropriate for academic librarians, academic libraries, schools of information science and librarianship, library educators, and researchers.

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