{"title":"A content analysis on the use of methods in online user research","authors":"Elke Greifeneder","doi":"10.18452/9506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18452/9506","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will build on the Digital Library Federation-sponsored study by Denise Troll Covey (2002, Usage and usability assessment: library practices and concerns) to look at the state of the art of user research. One of the questions is whether the data that comes from people's research actually answers their research question. This is especially important for digital content because the methods that we often apply come from a non-digital world. An example of such a problem is asking only people physically in a library about a resource that is available worldwide.","PeriodicalId":106444,"journal":{"name":"IFLA publications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129249455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘New Kids on the Block’: Developing a Social Science Strategy in the British Library","authors":"J. England","doi":"10.1515/9783110232158.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110232158.54","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106444,"journal":{"name":"IFLA publications","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134028545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IFLA publicationsPub Date : 2009-08-01DOI: 10.1515/9783110255300.241
Raphaële Mouren
{"title":"QUATRE SIÈCLES D'HISTOIRE DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE VETTORI: ENTRE VENERATION ET VALORISATION","authors":"Raphaële Mouren","doi":"10.1515/9783110255300.241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110255300.241","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106444,"journal":{"name":"IFLA publications","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115065795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IFLA publicationsPub Date : 2009-02-05DOI: 10.1515/9783598441677.221
S. Kalb
{"title":"LibQUAL Canada 2007: Service Quality Bench-marking on a National Scale","authors":"S. Kalb","doi":"10.1515/9783598441677.221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783598441677.221","url":null,"abstract":"The 2007 LibQUAL Canada Consortium was an historic achievement in the development of library assessment practice in Canada. As the largest ever LibQUAL+TM consortium, covering the majority of Canada’s university libraries, the LibQUAL Canada Consortium has taken a very large first step in collecting service quality data for benchmarking on a national and regional level. This article outlines the development of the consortium within the national context, what made it successful for its members and its experience with the LibQUAL+TM survey (what we have learned and where we would like LibQUAL+TM to go in the future).","PeriodicalId":106444,"journal":{"name":"IFLA publications","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131724645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY WORLD","authors":"Maggie Robb","doi":"10.1515/9783110232158.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110232158.32","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106444,"journal":{"name":"IFLA publications","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127862873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socio-economic Databases as a Support System for Interdisciplinary Research: Indian Scenario","authors":"P. R. Goswami","doi":"10.1515/9783110232158.87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110232158.87","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106444,"journal":{"name":"IFLA publications","volume":"2004 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127332224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BEING UNDISCIPLINED; OR TRAVERSING DISCIPLINARY CONFIGURATIONS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES DATABASES: CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND MULTIDISCIPLINARITY","authors":"J. Hérubel","doi":"10.1515/9783110232158.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110232158.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106444,"journal":{"name":"IFLA publications","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125273496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IFLA publicationsPub Date : 2006-07-13DOI: 10.1515/9783598440229.406
Helen Partridge, G. Hallam
{"title":"Developing a culture of evidence based practice within the library and information profession: the impact of library science education. A teaching and learning model from the Queensland University of Technology","authors":"Helen Partridge, G. Hallam","doi":"10.1515/9783598440229.406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783598440229.406","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence Based Practice (EBP) has recently emerged as a topic of discussion amongst professionals within the library and information industry. Simply stated, EBP is the process of using formal research skills and methods to assist in decision making and establishing best practice. The emerging interest in the EBP within the library context serves to remind the library profession that research skills and methods will ensure that the library industry remains current and relevant in a rapidly changing environment. The future of EBP within the library context relies upon effective cooperation between industry professionals, library science educators and professional associations. This paper will consider the role of library science education in ensuring the future of EBP within librarianship. Aware of its role to industry as a supplier of employees to the marketplace, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is continually reviewing its library science curriculum to more readily embrace the needs of current industry practice. This paper will discuss the teaching and learning model that is being at the Queensland University of Technology to foster student awareness and understanding of EBP and its practical role in the library and information industry. The paper examines the experiences of both the teaching staff and the students in practicing EBP within an industry context and considers the contribution the course makes in developing an EBP culture within the Australian library and information profession.","PeriodicalId":106444,"journal":{"name":"IFLA publications","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134479283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rosana Evangelista, V. Oliveira, Sandra Lúcia Pereira, Valdinéa Sonia Petinari
{"title":"Acesso digital : o direito à informação na área da saúde versus a propriedade intelectual da informação tecnológica","authors":"Rosana Evangelista, V. Oliveira, Sandra Lúcia Pereira, Valdinéa Sonia Petinari","doi":"10.20396/RDBCI.V2I2.2065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20396/RDBCI.V2I2.2065","url":null,"abstract":"Clinical Engineering is responsible for the management for the whole life cycle of medical equipment and related technology. This includes the specification, acquisition, installation, acceptance tests, training, preventive and corrective maintenance of medical equipment. The necessary documentation to attend these activities is stored in the Reference Center on Medical Equipment of the Center for Biomedical Engineering of the State University of Campinas. This paper analyses the possibility of digitizing all documents to allow their access via digital means, as they are available only in print form. The technical professionals and institutions would certainly be benefited with this action. In this paper we discuss amongst other topics, copyright, software needed, digital library development, document and user and publication characteristics. As a result we have identified, qualified and grouped all users of the documentation. We were then able to decide on the best way to allow the access to the digitized documents by the virtual clients. The main problem we have found is the need for the manufacturer’s agreement with this procedure, this point is l not solved yet.","PeriodicalId":106444,"journal":{"name":"IFLA publications","volume":"340 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123342957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IFLA publicationsPub Date : 2003-01-31DOI: 10.1515/9783110962802-023
A. Goulding, Marigold Cleeve
{"title":"VI. Key to the future: Education gender and equity in the library and information studies curriculum: Building confidence for the future","authors":"A. Goulding, Marigold Cleeve","doi":"10.1515/9783110962802-023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110962802-023","url":null,"abstract":"Women may numerically dominate the information professional, but powerful positions in administration and management are dominated by men. Various explanations and solutions have been proffered for this state of affairs but the issue of how the information and library studies (ILS) curriculum contributes to, or could help remedy matters, has not been investigated. Drawing on a national survey of lecturers and students in UK departments of ILS, this paper explores the extent to which ILS curricula include consideration of gender issues and equity. Starting from the premise that lecturers in higher education have a vital role to play in transforming the beliefs and values of those they teach, this paper examines how the curriculum can be developed to raise students' awareness of equity issues. It is argued that women's attitudes towards their careers can be positively influenced by their formative experiences at departments of ILS, which have a responsibility to encourage students to critically analyze their personal and especially their professional experiences.","PeriodicalId":106444,"journal":{"name":"IFLA publications","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131930078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}