Research Catalog

Title

New trends in qualitative and quantitative methods in libraries : selected papers presented at the 2nd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries : proceedings of the International Conference on QQML2010, Chania, Crete, Greece, 25-28 May 2010 / editors, Anthi Katsirikou, Christos Skiadas.

Author

International Conference on QQML (2010 : Chania, Greece)

Publication

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Katsirikou, Anthi.
• Skiadas, Christos H.

Description

xvi, 455 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This unique volume presents the latest scientific achievements of library researchers and professionals on the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Libraries. Scholars and professionals have now an information resource on methodological tools for library services. Except for the new technologies that facilitate the innovation of libraries, it is the underlying policy and functional changes that have the most lasting effect on the scholarly operation that explains why this volume is important in the field or market. It also explores in detail the areas covering library methodologies, marketing and management, statistics and bibliometrics, content and subject analysis, users' behaviors and library policies that play an important role at every aspect of library research in the twenty-first century.

Subject

• Library science > Research > Congresses
• Qualitative research > Congresses
• Quantitative research > Congresses
• Bibliothèques
• Bibliothéconomie
• Sciences de l'information
• Bibliothèque électronique
• Utilisateurs d'information
• Evaluation
• Méthodologie
• Congrès
• Library science > Research
• Qualitative research
• Quantitative research

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Fifty years after--almost / F. Wilfrid Lancaster -- The new challenges of the statistic : case UEF / Markku Laitinen and Aino Taskinen -- Fractal analysis of knowledge organization in digital library / Veslava Osinka -- User's perception and satisfaction with reference services in university libraries of Punjab : a survey / Shafiq Ur Rehman, Farzana Shafique and Khalid Mahmood -- User centred libraries and brand name : the case of Greek public libraries / Anthi Katsirikou and Ageliki Oikonomou -- View from a virtual reference desk / Lynne Rudasill -- Using data to make quick decisions about a new merged service desk : a case study / Elizabeth Cooper -- Moving from behind the desk and into the flow : assessing the impact of research support activities / JoAnn Jacoby -- One librarian at a time : group assessment via self assessment / Cynthia Johnson and Carol Ann Hughes -- Access and use of European information : a comparative analysis / Ana Lúcia Terra -- Evaluation of information services in the library : areas identified by graduate students / Naresh Kumar Agarwal -- How to teach library management / Angela Repanovici -- Using statistics - quality management in the library / Ane Landøy -- Greek academic repositories : policies (?) for making available scientific and cultural content / Manolis Koukourakis -- Library network support services : quantitative and qualitative measures for assessing the impact of information literacy initiatives on learners / Jerald Cavanagh and Padraig Kirby -- Electronic academic libraries services valuation : a case study of the Portuguese electronic scientific information consortium b-on / Luiza Baptista Melo and Cesaltina Pires -- The use of marketing research methods for the evaluation of information literacy services / Dionysis Kokkinos, Eleni Papadatou and Nina Sisamaki -- Development of management methods in polish libraries and information centers. hitherto existing solutions, new trends and directions of research / Maja Wojciechowska -- The use of phenomenographic approach to investigate students' conceptions of the use of Web 2.0 tools / Alice Adejoke Bamigbola -- Application of preservation metadata for long-term accessibility of digital objects / Yibeltal Tafere Bayih -- Exploring user's information behavior in social networks / Juan Daniel Machin Mastromatteo -- Using qualitative case study methodology to assess information access needs and open educational resources (OER) awareness among faculty and students of MOI University, Nairobi Campus, Kenya / Monica Wawira Gakindi -- A mixed model study to determine user preferences for delivery of collection content via mobile devices : lessons for the development of a smartphone application / Sara Grimm -- Data collection process and technique to determine the image characteristics of photogrammetry in cultural heritage domain / Mehrnoosh Vahdat --
• Documentation of library compliance in regional accreditation standards : a survey of accreditation liaisons and librarians of level-one institutions of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools / Donna S. Ballard -- Publishing patterns and authorship in the scholarly literature of digital object identifiers : a bibliometric analysis / Donna S. Ballard -- Characters of color. A content analysis of picture books in a Virgin Islands elementary school library / Marilyn M. Brissett -- Anthropological literature on social phobia : an examination of publishing and indexing patterns / Julie D. Shedd -- Educational choices and learning careers of LIS students as a social process : theoretical and methodological considerations / Valentini Moniarou-Papaconstantinou and Anna Tsatsaroni -- Using qualitative approach for a psychographic segmentation of the users of library services / Chiara Faggiolani -- Do we know image users? / Marija Petek -- Psychometric properties of the computer and web attitude scale (CWAS) : an application to Greek library students / Aspasia Togia, Afrodite Malliari, Stella Korobili and Nikolaos Tsigilis -- Generational technology expectations of library users : a case study / Rachel Williams and / Jennifer Cromer -- User preferences for virtual information retrieval : a qualitative study / Alan MacLennan -- Matching the databases' user interface with Ellis' model of information seeking behavior : a qualitative survey / Mohammad Azami and Rahmattolah Fattahi -- Exploring the research knowledge needs of Canadian academic librarians / Alvin M. Schrader -- UCSC Nexus Project : fostering networking between academic scholars and library staff. Qualitative methods for assessing perceived value of library services / Liliana Gregori, Luca Losito and Paolo Sirito -- Research library statistics : for whom and for what purpose? the statistics users' views and wishes / Cecilia Bodelsson, Catarina Jacobsson and Tore Torngren -- Performance appraisal of library staff working in Turkish universities / Leyla Kanik -- Automated metadata harvesting among Greek repositories in the framework of EuropeanaLocal : dealing with interoperability / Alexandros Koulouris, Emmanouel Garoufallou and Evangelos Banos -- The benefits of a quality management system : the case of the merger of two universities and their libraries / Jarmo Saarti and Arja Juntunen --
• Paving the way for interoperability in digital libraries : the DL.org Project / Katerina El Raheb, George Athanasopoulos, Leornardo Candela, Donatella Castelli, Perla Innocenti, Yannis Ioannidis, Akrivi Katifori, Anna Nika, Stephanie Parker, Seamus Ross, Costantino Thanos, Eleni Toli, and Giuseppina Vullo -- Squaring the circle : a comparative perspective on digital library evaluation models / Giuseppina Vullo -- Digital libraries and the digital working environment : what is their effect on library staff for sharing their knowledge? / Garoufallou Emmanoeul and Asderi Stella -- Case study method for research on digital library, information policies, and bibliographic organization / Georgina Araceli Torres-Vargas, Ariel Alejandro Rodríguez-García and Egbert John Sánchez-Vanderkast -- Experimental workflow development in digitisation / Mustafa Dogan, Clemens Neudecker, Sven Schlarb and Gerd Zechmeister -- Co-word analysis of doctoral dissertations in information science in the Republic of Croatia from 1978 to 2007 : contribution to research of development of information science / Miroslav Tuđman and Đilda Pečarić -- Satisfaction and relevance of libraries and technology in Ukraine and Romania / Svetlana Kolesnik and Katie Sheketoff -- Library performance management in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil : applying DEA to a sample of university libraries in 2006-2007 / Frederico A. de Carvalho, Marcelino José Jorge, Marina Filgueiras Jorge, Mariza Russo and Nysia Oliveira de Sá -- Grounded analysis of the use of public libraries in Appalachia by non-residents / Sheri Ross -- Supporting PDF accessibility evaluation : early results from the FixRep Project / Andrew Hewson and Emma Tonkin -- Heuristics for the evaluation of library online catalogues / Thomas Weinhold, Sonja Oettl and Bernard Bekavac -- The next generation of OPACs : what do experts consider as musts and don'ts? / René Schneider -- Books circulation and teaching support : a case study in a nutrition-dietetics department library / Maria Kampouraki, Nikos Thalassinos and Georgios A. Fragkiadakis -- Electronic scholarly communication, availability, utilization and its imperatives to academic libraries in Nigeria / Scholoastica A. C. Ukwoma, Victoria N. Okafor and Ifeoma Udeh.

ISBN

• 9789814350297
• 981435029X

LCCN

2011499670

OCLC

• ocn751526019
• 751526019
• SCSB-1621435

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library