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Newhouse, Robert C. – Library Quarterly, 1989
Describes the participant-observation technique for data collection and proposes its usefulness as a research methodology in library science. Procedural steps are outlined and suggestions are offered for successful completion of participant-observation research. (10 references) (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Library Research, Library Science, Participant Observation

Bookstein, Abrham – Library Quarterly, 1974
Discusses three types of faults which commonly occur in statistical sampling. (JG)
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Library Research, Research Methodology, Sampling

Sutton, Brett – Library Quarterly, 1993
Surveys some of the theoretical positions that underlie various qualitative research methods and discusses the methodological issues raised by those positions for use in library and information science research. Contextualization, understanding, pluralism, and expression are discussed; and qualitative research methods are compared with a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Information Science, Library Research, Models
Budd, John M. – Library Quarterly, 2006
Criticisms of library and information science (LIS) research abound and most focus on method, in the broad sense. This article examines the discourse on LIS from the standpoint of rhetoric and argument. Rhetorical and argumentative strategies are used in almost all formal communication, and these strategies themselves communicate purpose and point…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Persuasive Discourse, Information Science, Library Research

Bradley, Jana; Sutton, Brett – Library Quarterly, 1993
Introduces this journal issue which is a symposium on the theory, methods, and applications of qualitative research in the field of library and information science. Highlights include a definition of qualitative research, models of qualitative research, distinguishing features of research practice, comparisons with quantitative research, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Information Science, Library Research, Models

Kidston, James S. – Library Quarterly, 1985
This study develops a three-stage model of the question-answering process and investigates several potential sources of extraneous variability. Discussion includes implications of findings concerning what it means to "use" library materials and services, adverbs used as response category labels, and subject's responses as predictors of…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Library Research, Models, Questionnaires

Ellis, David – Library Quarterly, 1993
Discusses use of the grounded theory approach to derive models of the information-seeking patterns of academic researchers. The background to the development of qualitative approaches to information studies in the United Kingdom is described, and the results of four studies of the information-seeking patterns of researchers are outlined. (Contains…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Science, Information Seeking

Trahan, Eric – Library Quarterly, 1993
Describes and discusses metanalysis and criticisms of the methodology. Reports on a pilot study which tested the feasibility of metanalytic methods in library science research using the literature on paper- or computer-based information retrieval. (28 references) (EA)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Effect Size, Information Retrieval, Library Research

McGrath, William E. – Library Quarterly, 1993
Argues that perception studies and ranking are lacking in validity and reliability because of small sample size, simplistic statistical analyses, and the evaluation of quality by educators. It is asserted that quality control is more valid when evaluated by the customers of education, i.e., the students. (11 references) (EA)
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods, Graduate Students, Higher Education