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Students in the library - needs, feelings, opinions. Qualitative interview study in the University of Lodz Library
No full textArtykuł zawiera wyniki badań jakościowych metodą wywiadu częściowo ustrukturyzowanego, przeprowadzonych w Bibliotece Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (BUŁ) latem 2014 roku na grupie 15 studentów. Badanie miało na celu sprawdzenie, w jaki sposób można dostosować bieżące usługi biblioteczne do potrzeb młodych ludzi, a także dostarczyć informacji o ich spojrzeniu na bibliotekę uniwersytecką i relacji emocjonalnej z tą instytucją. Autorki starały się w wyczerpujący sposób przedstawić analizę wypowiedzi respondentów i posługując się techniką brikolażu szczegółowo ją zinterpretować. Najważniejsze zagadnienia, jakie pojawiły się w wywiadach, zostały dodatkowo podsumowane we wnioskach.The article contains results of the qualitative research conducted in the University of Lodz Library in summer, 2014. The interview involved
a group of 15 students. The study was designed to test and adjust the current library services and, most importantly, to examine young people’s
opinions about the university library and their emotional relationship with the institution. The technique of bricolage was used by the authors in their analysis of the interview. Key issues were summarized in the conclusions.Justyna Jerzyk-Wojtecka: [email protected] Agnieszka Goszczyńska: [email protected] Justyna Jerzyk-Wojtecka - Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegomgr Agnieszka Goszczyńska - Biblioteka Uniwersytetu ŁódzkiegoGukova S.: Wywiad w badaniach jakościowych: przyprowadzenie wywiadu. W: Badania jakościowe. T. 2, Metody i narzędzia. Pod red. D. Jemielniaka. Warszawa 2012, s. 111-129.Kvale S.: Prowadzenie wywiadów. Warszawa 2011.Silvermann D.: Interpretacja danych jakościowych. Warszawa 2007.257-27
Edukacja informacyjna w bibliotekach uczelni przyrodniczych
No full textIn accordance with the objectives of the Bologna Process students finishing each course of the studies should learn to find, evaluate and use information. Libraries should play a crucial role in teaching information literacy. The aim of the paper is to show how the libraries of the universities of life sciences carry out educational activities. The author describes the forms of education which are offered in this types of libraries
Uwarunkowania misji bibliotek w społeczeństwie wiedzy i informacji. Wizerunek i tożsamość
No full textThe article concerns the contemporary librarianship and the place of libraries in the information society. Rapid growth of information is conducive to the development of libraries, defining their mission and building their image in the modern world. Author points out several areas that affect the internal image of the library. These are: process management, communication and exchange of information, internal relations, the level of motivation of the staff, image management style and management system, the atmosphere in the workplace, conditions for staff development, integration activities, interpersonal communication, working conditions, an identification system for employees, good external image. It also describes the competences of modern librarians: creativity, ability to cooperate, the use of information technology, communication skills and efficiency in planning. Modern library is a place for meetings and cultural activity of the environment, for which it is assigned
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Od informacji do wiedzy. Rola bibliotekarzy-informatorów w Bibliotece Uniwersyteckiej w Warszawie
No full textThe University Library in Warsaw as one of the biggest academic libraries in Poland, serves a great amount of users every day. The major role in this process play the workers of Information Services and Training Department. The article presents every day work of eight subject librarians and four employees of Information Desk. The librarians provide information activity in the wide meaning – they promote the publications, take an active part in creating the book collection, take care of the high level of users’ service. The librarians also improve their skills regularly and extend professional knowledge. According to the conference’s topic the author would like to point at the relationship: Professionalism = information + education. Thanks to being involved in so various activities the librarians are the active participants of education process (including adult education), they become the specialists in their disciplines, advisers, library’s service promoters and trainers at the same time
Rola Wypożyczalni Miejscowej i Międzybibliotecznej w nowej jakości kształcenia akademickiego na przykładzie Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
No full textAcademic libraries are a part of university institutions and serve their needs. As those needs change, so do the requirements placed on the library. Evaluating and improving information services to meet user demands is essential to success – fully support the educational goals and the daily teaching and learning activities of the insti-tution. Understanding the information needs and making them available to the appropriate user is very important. Therefore the library departments such as circulation department and interlibrary loan department have come significant changes to adjust to the new users’ needs
Repozytorium uczelniane, budowa i koordynacja jego działania szansą na wzmocnienie pozycji biblioteki w realizacji misji naukowo-edukacyjnej uczelni
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to present educational tasks support from the university library. By building and coordinating the functioning of the university repository it can be actively involved in the promotional activities, which as a result of developments in the education market, can make the school better. Open Access and Open Educational Resources are still dominant trends in the publication of the results of scientific research and didactics. The role of the university is also the production and processing of knowledge. Knowledge is located in the center of the knowledge society. It is guaranteed the creation and development of such a model of society. Repositories are the component of modern education as well as knowledge transfer and sharing. The effort of the part of the university library in the implementation of these models of scholarly communication and education methods is an opportunity to strengthen its place in the structure of the university. The task to provide adequate information has not changed. The users prefer the resources available in the network. Nevertheless, they still need a professional support that can provide library staff. The author of the text attempt to show the location of educational materials in the repository. The basis for discussion was the chosen literature in the field of Open Access and Open Educational Resources as well as their own observations
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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