Using qualitative methods in action research
Subtitle: how librarians can get to the why of data
By: Douglas Cook and Lesley Farmer, editors
Publisher: Association of College and Research Libraries
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780838985762
Subjects: Action research; Library administration; Administration; Library science; Research; Public services (Libraries); Methodology; Academic libraries; Evaluation; Decision making
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Qualitative research and the librarian / Lesley Farmer; title: The recursive cycle of qualitative action research / Douglas Cook; title: Getting ready to turn your everyday work into meaningful inquiry : foundational literature in qualitative and action research / Cordelia Zinskie and Judi Repman; title: Teaching alone and together : a narrative inquiry / Roberta Tipton and Patricia Bender; title: Understanding social networking : the benefit of discourse analysis / Mariaelena Bartesaghi and Ardis Hanson; title: Remote and rural voices : using interviews to understand the information literacy experience of Alaskan special educators / Jennifer Diane Ward and Thomas Scott Duke; title: Observing relationship building in the library instruction classroom : peer observation and consultation / Carolyn L. Cook and Karla M. Schmit; title: Content analysis : deconstructing intellectual packages / Penny M. Beile; title: Using focus groups to understand user needs and forge new directions / Michael Weber and Robert Flatley; title: Performance-based self-assessment of a library liaison program using a rubric / Aaron Dobbs and Doug Cook; title: Analyzing LibQUAL+ comments to inform library decision making / David A. Nolfi and Laverna M. Saunders; title: Design and analysis challenges in a multicampus research study / Robin Brown and Willis C. Walker; title: Approaching information literacy qualitatively / Janice Krueger; title: The reference interview in real time and in virtual time / Isabelle Flemming and Lesley Farmer; title: Seeing is learning : the synergy of visual literacy / Alessia Zanin-Yost; title: Collective action : qualitative methods for library collection development / LeRoy Jason LaFleur.