Evidence-Based Librarianship. Case Studies and Active Learning Exercises

199 Pages·2007·1.417 MB·English

by  Elizabeth Connor (Eds.)

Evidence-based Librarianship
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Evidence-based
Librarianship: Case studies
and active learning
exercises
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DITED BY
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LIZABETH ONNOR
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List of figures, tables and appendices
Figures
2.1 Action research cycle 21
2.2 Action research spiral 22
2.3 Action research plan 24
2.4 Structured observation: individual performance 29
2.5 Teamwork: group performance 30
4.1 Library webpage accessibility: sample observation page 69
4.2 Research education: selected questions from student
interview script 70–1
4.3 Awareness, use and value of the library: selected page
from online survey 73
4.4 Library webpage accessibility: selected results 75
4.5 Research education: selected results 77
4.6 Awareness, use and value of the library: selected results 79
5.1 Median turnaround time for users for interlibrary lending:
comparison of 2002 and 2006 survey results 96
6.1 Scatter-plot of matched pairs of cases: length of stay for
the morning report patients and comparison patients 113
6.2 Scatter-plot of matched pairs of cases: total hospital charges
for morning report patients and comparison patients 113
7.1 Responses to bibliographic reference management software
question 129
7.2 Responses to thesis question 129
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7.3 Responses to confidence in information literacy question 131
8.1 Student information landscape 147
8.2 Faculty information landscape 148
8.3 Faculty ‘need to know’ challenges and librarian ‘solutions’ 149
8.4 PolyDog screen design 151
8.5 Collaborative evidence-based information practice model 156
Tables
I.1 EBL levels of evidence, revised xxx
I.2 Categories of questions xxxii
3.1 Research process rubric 49–51
3.2 Research product rubric 52–4
6.1 Total days of stay per hospitalisation (N = 55 matches) 112
6.2 Total charges per hospitalisation (N = 55 matches) 112
7.1 Comparison of RCUK Joint Skills Statement with the
SCONUL Seven Pillars model of information literacy 121
7.2 Workplan for Leeds University Library’s information
literacy project 122–3
7.3 Questions on information literacy included in research
student needs analysis survey 2005 128
7.4 Leeds University Library research student training: content
and structure of pilot training 136
8.1 Learning style guided content presentation guidelines 154
Appendices
1.A Sample exercises 11
1.B Summary of implications of evidence-based physical
therapy (EBPT) for LIS 14
2.A Workshop outline 35
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About the contributors
Daniel E. Banks, MD, is professor and head of the Department of Medicine
at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport,USA.
Carla Brooks, MSLS, is head of the Library Research Center of the
Mardigian Library at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA.
Formerly she worked at a medical library and a public library,
Kerri Ann Christopher, MLS, is senior reference librarian at Louisiana
State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, USA.
Marianne Comegys, MLS, is director of the Louisiana State University
Health Sciences Center Library in Shreveport, USA.
David C. Duggar, MLIS, is reference librarian at Louisiana State
University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, USA.
Jonathan D. Eldredge, MLS, PhD, AHIP, is associate professor for the
School of Medicine and library knowledge consultant for the Health
Sciences Library and Informatics Center at the University of New
Mexico in Albuquerque, USA.
Professor Lesley Farmer coordinates the teacher librarian programme at
California State University, Long Beach. At the time of the case study,
which she co-chaired, she was teacher librarian at Redwood High School
in Larkspur, California, USA.
Kathy M. Irwin, MSLS, is head of circulation services of the Mardigian
Library at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA. She has worked
in corporate and public libraries, and taught middle and high school.
Barbara J. Kriigel, MSL, is the associate director for circulation and
technical services of the Mardigian Library at the University of
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Michigan-Dearborn, USA. She has held professional positions in both
technical services and reference departments in academic, public and
corporate libraries, including the OCLC Library.
Joanne Gard Marshall, AHIP, is alumni distinguished professor at the
School of Information & Library Science at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Jerry McLarty, PhD, is director of cancer prevention and control and
professor of medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences
Center in Shreveport, USA.
Anita Mirijamdotter, PhD, is associate professor in social informatics in
the Division of Information Systems Sciences at Luleå University of
Technology in Sweden.
Roxanne Missingham is parliamentary librarian, Parliament of
Australia. She was most recently assistant director general, resource
sharing, at the National Library of Australia, chaired the National
Resource Sharing Policy Committee and was a member of the National
Resource Sharing Working Group. She is also a vice president of the
Australian Library and Information Association.
Angela Newton, MA, MCLIP, is information literacy research training
officer at the University of Leeds, UK. Angela is webmaster and a
committee member of the CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group, a co-
editor of the UK Information Literacy website and a member of the
LILAC conference organising committee.
Helen Partridge, BA, GradDipPsych, MIT, is lecturer at the School of
Information Systems in the Faculty of Information Technology at
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Carol Perryman, MSLIS, is a Triangle Research Libraries Network
(TRLN) doctoral fellow in the School of Information & Library Science
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Her research
focus is on evidence-based library and information practice as a way to
transform the profession.
Timothy F. Richards, AMLS, is director of the Mardigian Library at the
University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA. He began his career as a part-time
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cataloguer in a special library in 1974. Since then he has held professional
academic library positions in both public services and library
administration.
Erika Rogers, PhD, is professor of computer science (retired) at
California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, USA.
Runhua Shi, MD, PhD, is assistant professor in the Department of
Medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in
Shreveport, USA.
Mary M. Somerville, PhD, is associate dean, Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Library, at San José State University in California, USA. She formerly
served as assistant dean of information and instructional services at the
Robert E. Kennedy Library at California Polytechnic State University,
San Luis Obispo, the site of this action research study.
Elizabeth J. Taylor, MILS, is head of technical services of the Mardigian
Library at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA. She has worked
as a cataloguer in public, special and academic libraries.
Donna F. Timm, MLS, is head of user education at the Medical Library
of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport,
USA.
Monica Vezzosi, MSc Information Sciences, is reference librarian in the
Library of the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University
of Parma in Italy. She is in charge of the organisation and delivery of
information literacy programmes for environmental sciences and
biotechnology students as well as of tutoring activity in the master of
information and communication sciences degree course (University of
Parma/Northumbria University at Newcastle).
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