Readings
Last altered 5/18/01
There is NO set text for this course--
they are all too expensive-- however we used to use:
Judd, Charles M., Smith Eliot
R., and Kidder, Louse H. [1991], Research Methods in
Social Relations, Harcourt, 6th Ed., 1993,
ISBN
0-03-031149-7
There is a required readings package. We
will put up this readings packet online-- it will be accessible from
within the password protection of the course. The files are Acrobat
pdf files and can be downloaded and printed (for my taste, you're
better off buying the coursepack than downloading and printing the
files, but over to you...)
It contains
- Bergen, Dan. "Editorial" Library and Information Science
Research 9:71-75 (1987).
- Bookstein, A. (1985). Questionnaire Research in a Library
Setting. Journal of Academic Librarianship. 11. Mar ,
24-28.
- Borgman, C.L., Hirsh, S.G., Walter, V.A., & Gallagher,
A.L. "Children's Searching Behavior on Browsing and Keyword Online
Catalogs: The Science Library Catalog Project. "Journal of the
American Society for Information Science, (1995) 46 (9),
663-684.
- Brooks, Terrence A. [1989],
'The Model of Science and Scientific Models in Librarianship',
Library Trends, 38(2), 1989, 237-249.
- Busha, Charles H. and Stephen P. Harter. [1980],
'Research and Scientific Method', Research methods in
librarianship : techniques and interpretation New York :
Academic Press, 1980. 3-29.
- Buttlar, Lois, and William Caynon
"Recruitment of Librarians Into the Profession: The Minority
Perspective" Library and Information Science Research
volume 14, (1992) pages 259-280.
- Campbell, Donald T. and Julian C. Stanley [1963],
'Experimental and Quasi Experimental Designs for Research',
Chapter 5 of N.L. Gage (ed.) Handbook of Research on
Teaching Rand McNally, 1963. 1-76
- Case, D & Richardson, J. (1990). Predictors of Student
Performance with Emphasis on Gender and Ethnic Determinants.
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. 30, 3.
Winter. 163-180.
- Chalmers, A. F. [1978]. Theories as Structures: 2.
Kuhn's Paradigms. What Is This Thing Called Science? Milton
Keynes, England: The Open University Press., Chapter 8.
- Cooper, M. (1990). Perspectives on Qualitative Research with
Quantitative Implications.: Studies in Information Management.
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. 31, 2.
105-112.
- Davis, C.H. (1990). On Qualitative Research. Library and
Information Science Research. 12, 327-328.
- Enger, K.B., Quirk, G & Stewart, J. (1989). Statistical
Methods Used by Authors of Library and Information Science Journal
Articles. Library and Information Science Research. 11,
37-46.
- Grover, Robert and Greer, Roger C.
[1991], 'The Cross-Disciplinary Imperative of LIS
Research', Library and Information Science Research,
101-113.
- Johnson, Richard D. "Current Trends
in Library Journal Editing" Library Trends 36 (Spring,
1988) 659-672. In coursepack
- Lynch, Mary Jo "Research and
Librarianship: An Uneasy Connection" Library Trends
32/4(1984) pp 367-383.
- Maier, Mark H. "Demography" chapter 2 of his The Data Game:
Controversy in Social Science Statistics M.E. Sharpe, 1991,
pages 9-28.
- Moran, B. (1985). Survey Research for Librarians. Southeastern
Librarian. 35, 78-81.
- Roy, Donald [1952], 'Quota Restriction and
Goldbricking in a Machine Shop', American Journal of
Sociology, 57, 427-442.
- Shera, Jesse "Darwin, Bacon, and
Research in Librarianship" Library Trends 13:141-149
(1964). pp. 141-141. In coursepack
- Sengupta, I. (1992). Bibliometrics, Informetrics,
Scientometrics and Librametrics: an Overview. Libri, 42, 2.
75-98
- Simpson, I. (1988). Bibliometrics, in Basic Statistics for
Librarians, 3rd ed. 177-192. London: Lib Assn.
- Wainer, H. (1984). "How to Display Data Badly." American
Statistician, 38, 2. 137-147.
- White, H (1992). The Freedom to Write a Research Paper Without
being Mugged. Library Journal. 117, 3. Feb 15.
138-139..
- Wiegand, Wayne A. "Oregon's Public
Libraries during the First World War" Oregon Historical
Quarterly 90/1 (Spring, 1989) pages 39-63. (46-53 are all
illustrations and are not in the readings package.)
- Williams, Robert V. "Public Library
Development in the United States, 1850-1870: An Empirical
Analysis" Journal of Library History 21/1 (Winter, 1986)
pages 177-201.
The reading packet will be available
from the bookstore.
Copyright law, in
particular Fair Use in education, allows us to link to online
versions of these papers for our students. This has to be done from
behind password protected identification of registered students in
this class. In other words-- we cannot link to these papers from here
but enrolled students will be able to access the
papers.
Have a look at