{"title":"Reports from Discussion Group A and B","authors":"Sacha Shaw, Barbara C. Buckley","doi":"10.29173/LIRG665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/LIRG665","url":null,"abstract":"Discussion Group A: How do we assess the impact of e-lib for information users and user research? \u0000 \u0000Report from Discussion Group B How do we assess the impact of e-lib for information research and innovation?","PeriodicalId":41898,"journal":{"name":"Libres-Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"24-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82742709","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":"The impact of e-lib: the emerging paradoxes","authors":"G. Walton, Catherine Edwards","doi":"10.29173/lirg663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/lirg663","url":null,"abstract":"An earlier edition of LIRN outlined the aims and progress to date of the IMPEL Project (IMPEL1) based at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle (UNN). The study which ran from \u00001993 to 1995 focused on the impact of the electronic environment on qualified Library and Information Services (LIS) staff in the Higher Education (HE) sector. Successful completion of case studies in six UK university LIS for the IMPEL Project was followed by an expanded study funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as a Supporting Study under the e-lib programme. This project, IMPEL2 : Monitoring Organisational and Cultural Change, adopts a similar qualitative case study approach, retaining at its core the human aspects of electronic library development in a rapidly changing educational and technological environment.","PeriodicalId":41898,"journal":{"name":"Libres-Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal","volume":"39 1","pages":"12-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90385720","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":"Towards the digital library: how relevant is e-lib to practitioners?","authors":"A. Green","doi":"10.29173/LIRG662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/LIRG662","url":null,"abstract":"Discussion of the Electronic Libraries Programme, presented at a one-day seminar organised by the Library and Information Research Group held in September 1997 at the University of Hertfordshire.","PeriodicalId":41898,"journal":{"name":"Libres-Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"5-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74861402","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":"WALES, Tim (ed.). Business school libraries in the 21st century. Surrey: Ashgate. 2014.","authors":"L. Ashton","doi":"10.29173/LIRG632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/LIRG632","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41898,"journal":{"name":"Libres-Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal","volume":"184 1","pages":"82-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85663797","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":"KENNEDY, Marie R. and LAGUARDIA, Cheryl. Marketing your library’s electronic resources: a how-to-do-it manual. London: Facet. 2013.","authors":"N. Buckley","doi":"10.29173/LIRG631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/LIRG631","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41898,"journal":{"name":"Libres-Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal","volume":"98 1","pages":"86-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79694242","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":"Examining success: identifying factors that contribute to research productivity across librarianship and other disciplines","authors":"K. Hoffmann, S. Berg, D. Koufogiannakis","doi":"10.29173/LIRG639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/LIRG639","url":null,"abstract":"While some academic librarians have embraced the role of researcher and have successfully become active researchers and authors, others have struggled to be productive in this aspect of their responsibilities. A content analysis of literature on research productivity for librarians and non-librarians was conducted in order to identify factors that have been found to affect research success. This content analysis is part of a larger study designed to develop an instrument to measure the impact of key factors on librarians' success in research. This analysis reinforces the need to identify and study those factors that are truly antecedents for librarians’ research productivity, so that the academic library community can put our efforts and resources towards providing the supports that will be most helpful.","PeriodicalId":41898,"journal":{"name":"Libres-Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"13-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89636451","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":"Assessing the impact of evidence summaries in library and information practice","authors":"Lorie A. Kloda, D. Koufogiannakis, A. Brettle","doi":"10.29173/LIRG644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/LIRG644","url":null,"abstract":"Objective \u0000This study developed, validated and administered an instrument to investigate the impact of research evidence summaries published in the journal, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. \u0000 \u0000Methods \u0000Using the critical incident technique, this mixed methods study began by developing and testing a survey questionnaire, disseminating it to readers of the journal and conducting follow-up interviews with a subsample. \u0000 \u0000Findings \u0000A total of 86 practitioners responded to the survey and 13 took part in interviews. Evidence summaries led to impact at four levels: librarian knowledge, librarian practice, workplace practice, and library users. The instrument was revised as a result of the findings. \u0000 \u0000Conclusion \u0000This study provides unique insight into whether evidence summaries are an effective means of bridging the research-practice gap for the library community and its scholarly communication channels. The validated impact assessment instrument may also be adapted for other means of disseminating research in library and information practice.","PeriodicalId":41898,"journal":{"name":"Libres-Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal","volume":"35 1","pages":"29-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82394618","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":"OVADIA, Steven. The librarian’s guide to academic research in the cloud. Oxford: Chandos. 2013.","authors":"S. Bowman","doi":"10.29173/LIRG624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/LIRG624","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41898,"journal":{"name":"Libres-Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal","volume":"302 1","pages":"84-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84873478","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":"Demonstrating impact: a possible approach for the LIS researcher","authors":"Andrew K. Shenton","doi":"10.29173/LIRG636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/LIRG636","url":null,"abstract":"For many years, research has been judged according to the number of citations it attracts. However, this criterion may be criticised for paying no attention to differences in the nature of individual citations. This article shows how researchers can produce an impact continuum, with one pole highlighting situations where their work is integral to a later study and the other scenarios where it is only peripheral. The continuum presented here suggests ten categories of use and examples from the author’s own work are given as illustrations. The paper also outlines problems associated with the continuum. These include subjectivity in the placement of the categories and the potential difficulty of determining how far a particular study has actually influenced the thinking of a later researcher. Nevertheless, there are clear ways in which the structure may be helpful to readers seeking to highlight their research impact through typologies and case studies.","PeriodicalId":41898,"journal":{"name":"Libres-Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal","volume":"29 1","pages":"67-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75497053","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":"Assessing varied instructional approaches in the instruction of online graduate students","authors":"Mary Francis","doi":"10.29173/LIRG642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/LIRG642","url":null,"abstract":"Distance learners, and in particular distance graduate students, can be a neglected portion of the student body; however, the library needs for this growing student group are real and important. This paper explores an Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Assessment in Action: Academic Library and Student Success project which examined two different instructional methods offered to students in an online graduate education programme. Specifically, the study assessed the effect of an online tutorial and individual contact with a librarian. The tutorial showed a statistical difference between pre- and post-test results. The limited number of students participating in the individual contact did not allow for the establishment of statistical difference, but the study did provide evidence on how to improve the current reference system.","PeriodicalId":41898,"journal":{"name":"Libres-Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"3-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81991377","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}