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Title:

Using qualitative methods in action research : how librarians can get to the why of data / Douglas Cook and Lesley Farmer, editors.

Publisher:

Association of College and Research Libraries,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xii, 252 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Public services (Libraries)--Evaluation.
Library administration--Decision making.
Academic libraries--Decision making.--Decision making.
Library science--Methodology.--Methodology.
Action research.

Other Authors:

Cook, Douglas.
Farmer, Lesley S. J.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Qualitative research and the librarian / Lesley Farmer -- The recursive cycle of qualitative action research / Douglas Cook -- Getting ready to turn your everyday work into meaningful inquiry : foundational literature in qualitative and action research / Cordelia Zinskie and Judi Repman -- Teaching alone and together : a narrative inquiry / Roberta Tipton and Patricia Bender -- Understanding social networking : the benefit of discourse analysis / Mariaelena Bartesaghi and Ardis Hanson -- Remote and rural voices : using interviews to understand the information literacy experience of Alaskan special educators / Jennifer Diane Ward and Thomas Scott Duke -- Observing relationship building in the library instruction classroom : peer observation and consultation / Carolyn L. Cook and Karla M. Schmit -- Content analysis : deconstructing intellectual packages / Penny M. Beile -- Using focus groups to understand user needs and forge new directions / Michael Weber and Robert Flatley -- Performance-based self-assessment of a library liaison program using a rubric / Aaron Dobbs and Doug Cook -- Analyzing LibQUAL+ comments to inform library decision making / David A. Nolfi and Laverna M. Saunders -- Design and analysis challenges in a multicampus research study / Robin Brown and Willis C. Walker -- Approaching information literacy qualitatively / Janice Krueger -- The reference interview in real time and in virtual time / Isabelle Flemming and Lesley Farmer -- Seeing is learning : the synergy of visual literacy / Alessia Zanin-Yost -- Collective action : qualitative methods for library collection development / LeRoy Jason LaFleur.

ISBN:

0838985769 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780838985762 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)698451407

LCCN:

2011000967

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)