This book provides a survey of methods commonly used by researchers to develop new knowledge in Library and Information Science. This book also includes a brief overview of methods used to assess library services.
Fundamentals of research
- Characteristics of the research process
- Identifying research problems
- Epistemologies
- Research design
- Choosing a sample
- Ethical research
- Research data management
- Presenting research results
Methods
- The historical method
- The research survey
- The descriptive survey
- Observational methods
- The collection assessment
- The ethnography
- The case study
- Bibliometric methods
- Content and narrative analyses
- Usability and user experience studies
- Technical services and cataloging studies
- The experimental method
- The log analysis
- Knowledge synthesis
- Theoretical approaches
- Management and operational research
- Mixed methods research
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