Research and evaluation for information professionals /

Research and evaluation for information professionals / Robert M. Losee, Jr. and Karen A. Worley.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Losee, Robert M. 1952-
Other Authors: Worley, Karen A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, [1993]
Series:Library and information science (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Library statistics.
Information science > Statistical methods.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1 Research and Researchers (starting p. 1)
  • Science and Analysis (starting p. 13)
  • Sociology of Knowledge Growth (starting p. 20)
  • Bibliometrics (starting p. 22)
  • Ethics (starting p. 25)
  • 2 Information Collections (starting p. 29)
  • Information Representation (starting p. 30)
  • Media (starting p. 34)
  • What to Store? (starting p. 39)
  • Preservation (starting p. 46)
  • 3 Organization and Access (starting p. 51)
  • Organization and Structure of Information (starting p. 51)
  • Classification and Clustering (starting p. 56)
  • Indexing Systems (starting p. 59)
  • 4 Information Processing, Transmission and Retrieval (starting p. 65)
  • Computer Processing of Information (starting p. 65)
  • Communication (starting p. 69)
  • Information Retrieval (starting p. 80)
  • Reference
  • Supporting Information Retrieval (starting p. 85)
  • 5 The Research Proposal (starting p. 91)
  • Choice of a Research Topic (starting p. 92)
  • The Proposal (starting p. 95)
  • Components of the Research Proposal (starting p. 97)
  • 6 Research Design (starting p. 103)
  • Concepts, Variables, and Measurement (starting p. 103)
  • Experiments (starting p. 113)
  • Sampling (starting p. 119)
  • Ethical Issues (starting p. 128)
  • 7 Gathering Information (starting p. 133)
  • Questions (starting p. 133)
  • Responses (starting p. 137)
  • Asking Questions (starting p. 140)
  • Unobtrusive Observation (starting p. 147)
  • Field Research (starting p. 151)
  • Historical Research (starting p. 155)
  • Other Forms of Data Gathering (starting p. 158)
  • Ethical Concerns (starting p. 159)
  • 8 Statistical Analysis (starting p. 165)
  • Measures of Central Tendency (starting p. 166)
  • Variance (starting p. 169)
  • The Normal Distribution (starting p. 172)
  • Hypothesis Testing (starting p. 178)
  • Associations in Tables (starting p. 180)
  • Differences between Groups: T-Tests (starting p. 183)
  • Analysis of Variance (starting p. 186)
  • Regression Lines (starting p. 187)
  • Correlation (starting p. 191)
  • Nonparametric Procedures (starting p. 193)
  • Factor Analysis (starting p. 194)
  • Discriminant Analysis (starting p. 196)
  • Meta-analysis (starting p. 197)
  • Statistical Packages (starting p. 198)
  • Ethics (starting p. 199)
  • 9 Presenting Research Results (starting p. 205)
  • Oral Presentations (starting p. 206)
  • Delivering the Oral Presentation (starting p. 208)
  • Visuals (starting p. 209)
  • Written Presentations (starting p. 212)
  • Writing Style (starting p. 216)
  • Editing and Revising (starting p. 220)
  • Ethics (starting p. 220)
  • Appendix: Table of Random Numbers (starting p. 225)
  • Bibliography (starting p. 227)
  • Index (starting p. 231)

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