Growth and nature of international LIS research: An analysis of two journals     

Bipin Bihari Sethi  K.C. Panda 《International Information and Library Review》2013,45(2):86-99

The study explores the publication trends of scholarly journal articles in two core Library and Information Science (LIS) journals indexed under ScienceDirect Database during the period for the period 2000–2010, and for the “Top 25 Hottest Papers” for 2006–2010. It examines and presents an analysis of 1000 research papers in the area of LIS published in two journals: The International Information & Library Review (IILR) and Library & Information Science Research (LISR). The study examines the content of the journals, including growth of the literature, authorship patterns, geographical distributions of authors, distribution of papers by journal, citation pattern, ranking pattern, length of articles, and most cited authors. Collaboration was calculated using Subramanyam's formula, and Lotka's law was used to identify authors' productivity. The results indicated that authors' distributions did not follow Lotka's law. The study identified the eight most productive authors with a high of 19 publications in this field. The findings indicate that these publications experienced rapid and exponential growth in literature production. The contributions by scientists from India are examined.  相似文献   

Determining the Key Dimensions for Evaluating Service Quality and Satisfaction in Academic Libraries     

Muhammad Jaber Hossain 《International Information and Library Review》2013,45(3):176-189

ABSTRACT

Offering quality services and evaluating the rate of success in providing users with target services is the pervasive importance of academic libraries. The central purpose of this study is to determine key dimensions of service quality and satisfaction through developing a new item-scale for evaluating service quality and satisfaction in academic libraries. For primary data collection the study used a 28-item instrument based on five dimensional modified version of SERVQUAL. Respondents were asked to indicate their degree of opinions in the three-columns format: desired service expectation, minimum service expectation, and perception of service performance on a 7-point Likert-type scale. The researcher initially conducted a pilot survey to clarify the overall structure of the questionnaire items to be accepted and used. The reliability of the analysis of data with distinct service attributes were taken from ten public and private university libraries in Bangladesh. Subjecting data obtained to exploratory factor analysis shows that academic library service quality and satisfaction is related to four basic dimensions: caring, competence, resources, and library as a place. Twenty-six service items were identified after extraction through exploratory factor analysis, where nine items were shown before “caring,” five items for “competence,” seven items for “resources,” and five items for “library as a place.” The result in fact provides a generic and robust instrument and recognizes a new item-scale, namely “real service expectation” for the librarians and information science practitioners in the assessment of service quality and satisfaction in academic libraries and in the related fields.  相似文献   

Hitting the Trifecta: Alternative Career Paths for Those with an MLS     

Anne E. McKee  Beverley Geer  Michael Markwith  Steve Oberg  Bob Schatz  Christine Stamison 《期刊图书馆员》2013,64(1-2):179-192

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Employability Skills,The Student Path,and The Role of The Academic Library and Partners     

Gwyneth Tyrer  Joanne Ives  Charlotte Corke 《New Review of Academic Librarianship》2013,19(2):178-189

This case study explores the introduction of a university wide employability program by the World of Work Careers Centre (WOWCC) at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). The article reports the background against which an employability program was implemented; the justification and growing demand for more emphasis on employability skills in graduates; references the changes in academic libraries and services delivered; and, how these changed enabled WOWCC to work in consultation with the libraries to ensure a seamless and successful mode of delivery.  相似文献   

Integrating Assessment into Recurring Information Literacy Instruction     

《Public Services Quarterly》2013,9(1-2):191-220

SUMMARY

Information literacy instruction is integrated into the distance education program in library and information science (LEEP) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). This article describes the LEEP program and the library services provided to its students. Published research on LEEP and related topics in librarianship is reviewed. Student evaluations of library instructional sessions have been gathered since 2002, shared with teaching faculty and administrators, and used to improve and promote information literacy instruction within LEEP. In the fall of 2005, the instructional model for LEEP was adapted to the on-campus environment. Preliminary analysis of the on-campus student evaluations suggests that modifications are needed to deliver an equivalent learning experience to all LIS students at UIUC, whether on-campus or off.  相似文献   

Thwarted Innovation in Context     

《Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning》2013,7(1):51-61

Abstract

In June 2004, Thwarted Innovation: What Happened to e-learning and Why, a report by Robert Zemsky and William F. Massy, created a minor stir among many professionals associated with distance learning. This article addresses many of the issues arising from the publication of Thwarted Innovation, and in addition, it borrows several concepts from C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures in order to place the issues within a broader context. Changes created by the reconfiguration of distance learning opportunities are presenting serious challenges to those responsible for distance learning programs, and the author warns that ignoring the infrastructure of e-learning during the reconfiguration may result in distance learning students being divided into two distinct culturesseparate and unequal.  相似文献   

Descriptive Cataloging Proficiencies Among Beginning Students     

《Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning》2013,7(2):13-43

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Educational change takes ages: Life, career and generational factors in teachers’ emotional responses to educational change     

Andy Hargreaves   《Teaching and Teacher Education》2005,21(8):967-983

This paper examines the relationship of the emotions of teaching to teachers’ age and career stages based on experiences of educational change. Drawing on an analysis of interviews with 50 Canadian elementary, middle and high school teachers it analyzes how teachers respond emotionally to educational change at different ages and stages of career, and also how they attribute age and career-based responses to their colleagues.  相似文献   

The Role of Mentoring Support and Self-Management Strategies on Reported Career Outcomes     

Susan E. Murphy  Ellen A. Ensher 《Journal of Career Development》2001,27(4):229-246

This study examined the contribution of self-management strategies to job outcomes for employees involved in mentoring relationships. Participants (n = 158) reported their use of three types of self-management strategies, the level of support functions provided by their mentors, and their job satisfaction and perceived career success. Results showed that individuals who used self-set career goals reported greater job satisfaction and perceived career success; those who engaged in positive cognitions also had higher job satisfaction; and those who used behavioral self-management strategies reported greater perceived career success. Mentoring and self-management strategies each contributed uniquely to satisfaction and perceived career satisfaction. After controlling for amount of instrumental support provided by the mentors, positive cognitions remained predictive of perceived career success, and participation in self-set career goals were related to higher levels of job satisfaction. Moderator analysis showed that the self-management strategies appeared to be useful in the absence of certain types of mentor support.  相似文献   

The State of Cataloging Research: An Analysis of Peer-Reviewed Journal Literature, 2010–2014     

Lori J. Terrill 《Cataloging & classification quarterly》2016,54(8):593-611

The importance of cataloging research was highlighted by a resolution declaring 2010 as “The Year of Cataloging Research.” This study of the peer-reviewed journal literature from 2010 to 2014 examined the state of cataloging literature since this proclamation. The goals were to determine the percentage of cataloging literature that can be classified as research, what research methods were used, and whether the articles contributed to the library assessment conversation. Nearly a quarter of the cataloging literature qualifies as research; however, a majority of researchers fail to make explicit connections between their work and the missions of their libraries.  相似文献