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LISDIS Conference 14 November 2015
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INNOCENTI, Perla. Cultural Networks in Migrating Heritage: Intersecting Theories and Practices across Europe. Farnham: Ashgate. 2015.
Get PDFRUTHVEN, I. and CHOWDHURY, G.G. (eds) Cultural Heritage Information Access and Management. London: Facet Publishing. 2015.
No full textHERNON, P., ALTMAN, E., and DUGGAN, R.E. Assessing service quality: Satisfying the expectations of library customers. 3rd Ed. London: Facet. 2015
No full textOVADIA, Steven. The librarian’s guide to academic research in the cloud. Oxford: Chandos. 2013.
Get PDFAn exploration of the information literacy experiences of home educating families
Get PDFBackground and aims
There is limited existing research on the information literacy experiences of home educating families. This study aims to explore these experiences, providing a framework and context for their experiences and finding parallels in the existing literature on information literacy.
Methodology
This is a qualitative study consisting of five in-depth interviews with families. The findings were analysed using a grounded, interpretive approach.
Results and conclusion
The findings suggested that digital aspects of information literacy were significant for these families and that communities of practices were a useful way to understand their information literacy. The importance of reflection for information literacy was also demonstrated. There was some evidence that the information literacy of home educating families could be seen as challenging the orthodoxy of more formal educational models
Reports from Discussion Group A and B
No full textDiscussion Group A: How do we assess the impact of e-lib for information users and user research?
Report from Discussion Group B How do we assess the impact of e-lib for information research and innovation
Examining success: identifying factors that contribute to research productivity across librarianship and other disciplines
Get PDFWhile some academic librarians have embraced the role of researcher and have successfully become active researchers and authors, others have struggled to be productive in this aspect of their responsibilities. A content analysis of literature on research productivity for librarians and non-librarians was conducted in order to identify factors that have been found to affect research success. This content analysis is part of a larger study designed to develop an instrument to measure the impact of key factors on librarians\u27 success in research. This analysis reinforces the need to identify and study those factors that are truly antecedents for librarians’ research productivity, so that the academic library community can put our efforts and resources towards providing the supports that will be most helpful
The impact of e-lib: the emerging paradoxes
Get PDFAn earlier edition of LIRN outlined the aims and progress to date of the IMPEL Project (IMPEL1) based at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle (UNN). The study which ran from
1993 to 1995 focused on the impact of the electronic environment on qualified Library and Information Services (LIS) staff in the Higher Education (HE) sector. Successful completion of case studies in six UK university LIS for the IMPEL Project was followed by an expanded study funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as a Supporting Study under the e-lib programme. This project, IMPEL2 : Monitoring Organisational and Cultural Change, adopts a similar qualitative case study approach, retaining at its core the human aspects of electronic library development in a rapidly changing educational and technological environment