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Bradley, Jana – Library Quarterly, 1993
Discusses methodological issues concerning qualitative research and describes research practices that qualitative researchers use to address these methodological issues. Topics discussed include the researcher as interpreter, the emergent nature of qualitative research, understanding the experience of others, trustworthiness in qualitative…
Descriptors: Credibility, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Information Science
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Budd, John M. – Library Quarterly, 2000
This study is the third in a series that examines measures of productivity applied to faculty in Library and Information Science (LIS) programs accredited by the American Library Association. Data from 1993-98 are analyzed according to individual and program productivity and tables list rankings according to journal citations and articles.…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Data Analysis, Faculty Publishing, Information Science
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Young, Arthur P. – Library Quarterly, 2006
"Library Quarterly's" seventy-fifth anniversary invites an analysis of the journal's bibliometric dimension, including contributor attributes, various author rankings, and citation impact. Eugene Garfield's HistCite software, linked to Thomson Scientific's Web of Science, as made available by Garfield, for the period 1956-2004, was used as the…
Descriptors: Library Science, Periodicals, Content Analysis, Time Perspective
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Ottensmann, John R. – Library Quarterly, 1997
Describes geographic information systems and the assembly of data for analysis for the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library (Indiana). Presents examples of possible analyses: distribution of library patrons; distances patrons travel to use libraries; branch library services and characteristics of populations served; numbers of patrons served…
Descriptors: Branch Libraries, Data Analysis, Library Materials, Library Services
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Nicholson, Scott – Library Quarterly, 2005
Archaeologists have used material artifacts found in a physical space to gain an understanding about the people who occupied that space. Likewise, as users wander through a digital library, they leave behind data-based artifacts of their activity in the virtual space. Digital library archaeologists can gather these artifacts and employ inductive…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Archaeology, Library Services, Human Body
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Kinnucan, Mark T.; Estabrook, Leigh; Ferguson, Mark R. – Library Quarterly, 1998
A reanalysis of data from a national telephone poll (n1181) conducted in 1991 determined that if local libraries faced a fiscal crisis, 47% favored raising taxes, 44% preferred instituting user fees, and 9% advocated reducing services. Frequent library use, urban residence, higher level of education, and greater income were associated with a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Income, Library Funding