Objective – The primary objective of this study was to gather quantitative information on the need, development, acquisition, and application of pedagogical knowledge by academic librarians with teaching responsibilities.

Design – Online survey questionnaire.

Setting – Higher-education…

Objective – To determine the information seeking behaviours of traditional medical practitioners who treat sickle cell anemia patients.

Design – Qualitative, interviewer-administered, structured questionnaire.

Setting – City and surrounding rural area of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Subjects –…

Objective – To examine provider pessimism by comparing user and provider perception of the same instant messaging reference transaction.

Design – Instant messaging users and providers completed post-reference transaction surveys which were analyzed using the pair perception comparison…

Objective – To observe and compare the strategies that undergraduate science students use to perform information retrieval tasks in e-books and in print books.

Design – Qualitative analysis, employing a “prompted think-aloud” methodology and thematic analysis.

Setting –…

Abstract

Objectives – The main objectives of this study were the following:
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to analyze the career path and career movement of librarians in Korea
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to identify and compare factors influencing the career movement path of chief librarians…

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Objective – To determine the extent to which knowledge is currently addressed by the Library of Congress (LCC), Dewey Decimal (DDC), and Universal Decimal (UDC) classification systems.

Design – Comparative analysis of the LCC, DDC, and UDC systems using…

A Review of:
Wong, G. K. W. (2010). Information commons help desk transactions study. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 36(3), 235-241.

Objective - To develop an understanding of the types of technology questions asked at an information commons help desk…

Objective – To assess master’s students’ perceptions of their information studies program with regard to the program’s academic quality and professional preparation as it moved to become an iSchool.

Design – Longitudinal survey, employing both quantitative analysis of demographics…