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LIBR 285
Research Methods
Research for Critique

Dr. Geoffrey Z. Liu
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Case Studies

• Asher, C. M. (2000). Results of using vendor-supplied analog technology to create a virtual collection: A case study. Journal of Interlibrary Loan Document Delivery and Information Supply, 10(3), 11-20.

• Atuti, R. M. (2001). Managing adaptation of buildings to library use: a case study of community libraries in Kenya. Library Review, 50(5/6), 231-236.

• Battleson, B., Booth, A., & Weintrop, J. (2001). Usability testing of an academic library Web site: a case study. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 27(ER3), 188-198.

• Chin, K.-S., Pun, K.-F., Leung, W. M., & Lau, H. (2001). A quality function deployment approach for improving technical library and information services: a case study. Library Management, 22(4/5), 195-204.

• Daehn, Ralph M. (2000). Launching a Public Printing Program with Built-In Cost Recovery. Computers in Libraries, 20(9), 50.

• Doran, M., & Preston, J. (2000). The public library service in a divided community, Portadown, Northern Ireland: a case study. Library Management, 21(8/9), 409-422.

• Draycott, C. (2000). The Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic Library Digitization Project: a case study Journal of Audiovisual Media in Medicine, 23(4), 165-170.

• El-Sherbini, M. (2001). Copy cataloguers and their changing roles at the Ohio State University Library: a case study. Library Management, 22(1/2), 80-85.

• Gleason, J. M. (2000). Use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process in a Technology Acquisition Decision: A Case Study Related to Library Information Services. International Journal of Industrial Engineering, 7(4), 336-340.

• Kennan, Mary Ann. (2000). Library System Selection and Implementation: A Case Study. LASIE, 31(2), 21.

• Loder, M. W. (2000). Seating patterns and improvements in a small college library: a case study. College and Undergraduate Libraries, 7(2), 83-94.

• Tan, C.W., Pan, S.L., Lim, E.T.K., & Chan, C.M.L. (2005). Managing knowledge conflicts in an interorganizational project: a case study of the Infocomm deDevelopment Authority of Singapore. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56(11), 1187-1199.

• Tenner, Elka, & Yang, Zheng Ye (Lan). (2000). End-user acceptance of electronic journals: a case study from a major academic research library. Technical Services Quarterly, 17(2), 1.

• Williamson, D. (2001). Library and academic collaboration: a case study in teaching media communications. Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 32(1), 53-60.

• Yang, Zheng Ye (Lan). (2000). University Faculty's Perception of a Library Liaison Program: A Case Study. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 26(2), 124.

• Zhang, Y. (2000). Using the Internet for survey research: a case study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(1), 57-68.

Survey (Questionnaire) Studies

• Blackburn, S. et al. (2004). Status and tenure for academic law librarians: A survey. Law Library Journal, 96, 127-166.

• Courtney, N. (2003). Unaffiliated users' access to academic libraries: A survey. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 29, 3-7.

• Duggar, David C. (1999). Security and Crime in Health Sciences Libraries in the Southern United States. Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 18(1), 37.

• Hart, R. L. (2000). Co-authorship in the academic library literature: A survey of attitudes and behaviors. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 26(ER5), 339-345.

• Henner, T. A. (2000). Free MEDLINE and implications for library operations. Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 19(3), 71-80.

• Hoffman, Irene M.; Smith, Amy; DiBona, Leslie (2000). Factors for Success: Academic Library Development Survey Results. Library Trends, 48(3), 540.

• Janes, J. (2002). Digital reference: reference librarians' experiences and attitudes. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(7), 549-566.

• Jankowska, M. A. (2004). Identifying University Professors' Information Needs in the Challenging Environment of Information and Communication Technologies. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 30(1), 51-66.

• Powell, Robert R. et al.(XXXX). Childhood socializaton: Its effect on adult library use and adult reading. Library Quarterly, 54(3), p.245-64.

• Redfern, V. (2004). Natural language thesaurus: A survey of student research skills and research tool preferences. Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 35(2), 137-150.

• Shill, H.B. & Tonner, S. (2003). Creating a Better Place: Physical Improvements in Academic Libraries, 1995-2002. College & Research Libraries, 64, 431-466.

• Shontz, M. L., Parker, J. C. & Parker, R. (2004). What do librarians think about marketing? A survey of public librarians' attitudes toward the marketing of library services. Library Quarterly, 74(1), 63-85.

• Tibbo, H.R. (2003). Primarily history in America: How U.S. historians search for primary materials at the dawn of the digital age. American Archivist, 66(1), 9-50.

• Tilley, C. L. & Callison, D. (2001). Preparing School Library Media Specialists for the New Century: Results of a Survey. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 42(3), 220-227.

• Wark, S. M. (2000). The Client Satisfaction Survey as a Tool for Evaluating Library Fee-Based Information Services. Journal of Interlibrary Loan Document Delivery and Information Supply, 10(3), 63-76.

Survey (Online/Web-based) Studies

• Graham, K. and Grodzinski, A. (2001). Defining the Remote Library User: An Online Survey. Libraries and the Academy, 1(3), 289-308.

• Perkins, G. H. & Yuan, H. (2000). Genesis of a Web-Based Satisfaction Survey in an Academic Library: The Western Kentucky University Libraries' Experience. Library Administration and Management, 14(3), 159.

• Perkins, G. H. & Yuan, H. (2001). A comparison of web-based and paper-and-pe ncil library satisfaction survey results. College and Research Libraries, 62(4), 369-378.

Survey (Instrument Design)

• Van Kampen, D.J. (2004). Development and validation of the multidimensional library anxiety scale. College & Research Libraries, 65(1), 28-34.

• Jiao, Q.G. & Onwuegbuzie, A.J. (2002). Dimensions of library anxiety and social interdependence: implications for library services. Library Review, 51(2), 71-78.

• Joo, S. , & Lee, J. (2011). Measuring the usability of academic digital libraries instrument development and validation. Electronic Library, 29(4), 523-537.

Survey (Interview) Study

• Agada, J. (1999). Inner-city gatekeepers: an exploratory survey of their information use environment. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(1), 74-85.

Historical Studies

• Dupin, C. (2006).  The origins and early development of the National Film Library: 1929-1936. Journal of Media Practice, 7(3), 199-217.

• Fayet-Scribe, S. (1997). The cross-fertilization of the U.S. public library model and the French documentation model (IIB, French correspondent of FID) through the French professional associations between World War I an World War II. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(9), 782-793.

• Hahn, T.B. & Buckland, M. (Ed.). Historical Studies in Information Science. Published for ASIS by Information Today, Inc., 1998.

• Larson, K.C. (2001). The Saturday evening girls: a progressive era library club and the intellectual life of working class and immigrant girls in turn-of-the-century Boston. Library Quarterly, 71(2), 195-230.

• Main, S.J. The Creation and Development of the Library System in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War (1918-1920): A Historical Introduction. Library Quarterly, 65 (July 1965): 319-32.

• Malone, C.K. (1998). Reconstituting the public library users of the past: an exploration of nominal record linkage methodology. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 39(4), 282.

• Malone, C.K. (2007). Unannounced and unexpected: the desegregation of Houston public library the early 1950s. Library Trends, 55(3), 665-674.

• Muddiman, D. (2005). A new history of ASLIB, 1924-1950. Journal of Documentation, 61(3), 402-428.

• Robbins, L. S. (2007). Publishing American values: the Franklin Book Programs as Cold War cultural diplomacy. Library Trends, 55(3),638-650.

• Shavit, D. (1999) [PDF]. The Greatest moral factor next to the Red Army : books and libraries in American and British Prisoners of War Camps in Germany During World War II. Libraries & culture, 34(2), 113.

• Volodin, B.F. (1998). Russian Library History in a European Context. Library History, 14, 23.

• Weinberg, B.H. (1997). The earliest Hebrew citation indexes. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(4), 318-330.

• Williams, R.V. (1997). The documentation and special libraries movements in the United States, 1910-1960. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(9), 775-781.

Qualitative Research

• Gabridge, T., Gaskell, M., & Stout, A. (2008). Information Seeking through Students' Eyes: The MIT Photo Diary Study. College & Research Libraries, 69(6), 510-22.

• Julien, H., & Genuis, S. (2009). Emotional labour in librarians' instructional work. Journal of Documentation, 65(6), 926-37. doi: 10.1108/00220410910998924

• Matusiak, K. (2006). Information seeking behavior in digital image collections: A cognitive approach. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 32(5), 479-488.

• Meyers, E. M., Fisher, K. E., & Marcoux, E. (2009). Making sense of an information world: The everyday-life information behavior of preteens. Library Quarterly, 79(3), 301-341.

• Passonneau, S., & Coffey, D. (2011). The role of synchronous virtual reference in teaching and learning: A grounded theory analysis of instant messaging transcripts. College & Research Libraries, 72(3), 276-294.

• Reneker, M.H. (1993). A qualitative study of information seeking among members of an academic community: methodogical issues and problems. Library Quarterly, 63(4), p. 487-507.

• Scales, B., & Lindsay, E. (2005). Qualitative Assessment of Student Attitudes toward Information Literacy. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 5(4), 513-526.

Delphi Study

• Neuman, D. (1995). High school students' use of databases: results of a national delphi study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46(4), 284-298.

Experimental Studies

• Allen, B. (2000). Individual differences and the conundrums of user-centered design: two experiments. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(6), 508-520.

• Arcand, M., Nantel, J., Arles-Dufour, M., & Vincent, A. (2007). The impact of reading a web site's privacy statement on perceived control over privacy and perceived trust. Online Information Review, 31(5), 661-681.

• Bar-Ilan, J., Zhitomirsky-Geffet, M., Miller, Y., & Shoham, S. (2010). The effects of background information and social interaction on image tagging. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(5), 940–951.

• Bilal, D. (2000). Children's use of the Yahooligans! web search engine: I. Cognitive, physical, and affective behaviors on fact-based search tasks. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(7), 646-665.

• Bowman, L. L., Levine, L. E., Waite, B. M., & Gendron, M. (2010). Can students really multitask? An experimental study of instant messaging while reading. Computers & Education, 54(4), 927-931. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2009.09.024

• Chen, C. (2000). Individual differences in a spatial-semantic virtual environment. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(6), 529-542.

• Cho, K.S. & Choi, D.S. (2008). Are read-alouds and free reading "natural partners"?: An experimental study. Knowledge Quest, 36(5), 69-73 .

• Dennis, S., Bruza, P., & McArthur, R. (2002). Web searching: A process-oriented experimental study of three interactive search paradigms. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(2), 120-133.

• Djikic, M., Oatley, K., Zoeterman, S., & Peterson, J. (2009). On being moved by art: How reading fiction transforms the self. Creativity Research Journal, 21(1), 24-29.

• Golbeck, J. , Koepfler, J. , & Emmerling, B. (2011). An experimental study of social tagging behavior and image content. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(9), 1750-1760.

• Hedstrom, M.L., Lee, C.A., Olson, J.S., & Lampe, C.A. (2006). "The old version flickers more": Digital preservation from the user's perspective. American Archivist, 64(2), 159-187.

• Holderied, A. C. (2011). Instructional design for the active: Employing interactive technologies and active learning exercises to enhance information literacy. Journal of Information Literacy, 5(1), 23-32.

• Jansen, B.J. & McNeese, M.D. (2005). Evaluating the effectiveness of and patterns of interactions with automated searching assistance. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56(14), 1480-1503.

• Kim, K.S. & Allen, B. (2002). Cognitive and task influences on web searching behavior. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(2), 109-119.

• Kim, J. S. & White, T. G. (2008). Scaffolding voluntary summer reading for children in grades 3 to 5: An experimental study. Scientific Studies of Reading, 12(1), 1-23.

• Kristensson, P., Magnusson, P., and Matthing, J. (March, 2002).  Users as a hidden resource for creativity: Findings from an experimental study on user involvement. A Hidden Resource for Creativity. 11(1), pp. 55-61.

• Lin, L., Robertson, T., & Lee, J. (2009). Reading performances between novices and experts in different media multitasking environments. Computers In The Schools, 26(3), 169-186.

• Piccoli, G., Ahmad, R., & Ives, B. (2001). Web-based virtual learning environments: A research framework and a preliminary assessment of effectiveness in basic IT skills training. MIS Quarterly, 25(4).

• Roman, S., & Fiore, C. D. (2010). Do public library summer reading programs close the achievement gap? Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children, 8(3), 27-31.

• Schneider, N., & Goldstein, H. (2010). Using social Stories and visual schedules to improve socially appropriate behaviors in children with autism. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 12(3), 149-160.

• Singer, E. & Couper, M. P. (2008). Do incentives exert undue influence on survey participation? experimental evidence.

• Sutcliffe, A.G., Ennis, M., & Watkinson, S.J. (2000). Empirical studies of end-user information searching. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(13), 1211-1231.

• Tombros, T. & Crestani, F. (2000). User's perception of relevance of spoken documents. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(10), 929-939.

• Vibert, N. , Ros, C. , Le Bigot, L. , & Ramond, M. et al. (2009). Effects of domain knowledge on reference search with the PubMed database: An experimental study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(7), 1423-1447.

• Zhang, X. & Chignell, M. (2001). Assessment of the effects of user characteristics on mental models of information retrieval systems. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 52(6), 445-459.

Longitudinal/Field Studies / Ex Post Facto Design

• Cothey, V. (2002). A longitudinal study of World Wide Web users' information-searching behavior. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(2), 67-78.

• Parker, E. B. (1963). The effects of television on public library circulation. Public Opinion Quarterly, 27 (4), 578-589.

• Todd, Ross J. (1999). Utilization of heroin information by adolescent girls in Australia: A cognitive analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(1), 10-23.

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