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Metoyer-Duran, Cheryl; Hernon, Peter – Library and Information Science Research, 1994
This study examines and compares the purpose, content, and form of the problem statement by researchers in disciplines other than library and information science (LIS). Their assessments of the attributes of a problem statement were compared to the literature and an evaluation of problem statements evidenced by researchers within LIS. (Contains 16…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Information Science, Interdisciplinary Approach, Library Research
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Frohmann, Bernd – Library and Information Science Research, 1994
Describes discourse analysis as practiced by Michel Foucault and his followers as a research method in library and information science. The method is introduced, some examples of its use are suggested, and several research questions are posed. The method permits analysis of the ways information, its uses, and its users are discursively…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Information Science, Interdisciplinary Approach, Library Research
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Swigger, Keith – Library and Information Science Research, 1985
Reviews the research and commentary on individuals' questions and specific reference queries that characterize two general approaches in librarianship and other disciplines: question itself as phenomenon of questioner's behavior, linguistic performance, or cognitive state; interaction between question and answer focusing on appropriateness of…
Descriptors: Classification, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Science