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Methods, Management and Marketing; The Change of Libraries; Digital Resources and New Library Models; Focus to Users and User Groups; Information Literacy; Quality, Using Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Digital Library Education and Research; Evaluation; Impact Assessment; Information and Communication Technology Services; Support to Research; Catalogues and Manuscripts.

Fifty years after - almost / F. Wilfrid Lancaster -- The new challenges of the statistics : case UEF / Markku Laitinen and Aino Taskinen -- Fractal analysis of knowledge organization in digital library / Veslava Osinka -- User's perception and satisfaction with reference services in university libraries of Punjab : a survey / Shafiq Ur Rehman, Farzana Shafique and Khalid Mahmood -- User centred libraries and brand name : the case of Greek public libraries / Anthi Katsirikou and Ageliki Oikonomou -- View from a virtual reference desk / Lynne Rudasill -- Using data to make quick decisions about a new merged service desk : a case study / Elizabeth Cooper -- Moving from behind the desk and into the flow : assessing the impact of research support activities / JoAnn Jacoby -- One librarian at a time : group assessment via self assessment / Cynthia Johnson and Carol Ann Hughes -- Access and use of European information : a comparative analysis / Ana Lucia Terra -- Evaluation of information services in the library : areas identified by graduate students / Naresh Kumar Agarwal -- How to teach library management / Angela Repanovici -- Using statistics - quality management in the library / Ane Landoy -- Greek academic repositories : policies for making available scientific and cultural content / Manolis Koukourakis -- Library network support services : quantitative and qualitative measures for assessing the impact of information literacy initiatives on learners / Jerald Cavanagh and Padraig Kirby -- Electronic academic libraries services valuation : a case study of the Portuguese electronic scientific information consortium b-on / Luiza Baptista Melo and Cesaltina Pires -- The use of marketing research methods for the evaluation of information literacy services / Dionysis Kokkinos, Eleni Papadatou and Nina Sisamaki -- Development of management methods in Polish libraries and information centres. Hitherto existing solutions, new trends and directions of research / Maja Wojciechowska -- The use of phenomenographic approach to investigate students' conceptions of the use of web 2.0 tools / Alice Adejoke Bamigbola -- Application of preservation metadata for long-term accessibility of digital objects / Yibeltal Tafere Bayih -- Exploring user's information behavior in social networks / Juan Daniel Machin Mastromatteo

Research and Librarianship -- Developing the Research Study -- Writing the Research Proposal -- Principles of Quantitative Methods -- Survey Researchandthe Questionnaire -- Sampling -- Experimental Research -- Analysis of Quantitative Data -- Principles of Qualitative Methods -- Analysis of Qualitative Data -- Individual and Focus Group Interviews -- Ethnographic Approaches to Qualitative Research -- Historical Research -- Applied and Community-Based Research -- Presentation and Dissemination of the Research Project.

This volume is a valuable resource of research papers and applications presented at the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference QQML2009, on the methodological tools used in library and information science. It provides the reader with a better understanding and holistic view on the subject and contains a plethora of invaluable methodologies and applications to a variety of information and library science. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries will be suitable to students as a textbook, as well as to scientists and professionals.

Qualitative Research and the Modern Library examines the present-day role and provides suggestions for areas that might be suited to this type of research for the purposes of evaluation. The author discusses how the results from such research might be applied, and the overall impact of using this type of research to inform development of a more user-centred organisation. The book provides a thoughtful look at the implications of using qualitative research to inform decision-making processes within libraries and is written by an author and library researcher with international experience in various types of libraries, implementing/improving programs and services, and supporting user needs. Fills a gap in the current literature that hasn’t been found in journal articles written on this topic Contains practical applications of qualitative research principles, with practical examples of select projects Written by an author and library researcher with international experience in various types of libraries, including work with large-scale qualitative studies, research design and evaluation of library services