Unit 2 Different Research Methods in LIS Practice

WilliamsonChp2.pdf page 38-42

• Librarianship/Information Management
• user studies / who & why and who-not
• specific areas of service
• evaluation of information service
• focus on program, service or product
• focus on consumer, client, customer, actual or potential
• Performance measurement
• what has been accomplished by specific programs, services or resource availability
• Archives & Records
• old discipline, tradition of research in diplomatic and historiography
• records & archives 
• long term preservation of electronic records
• develop a taxonomy of record types in e-systems
• help to identify functional requirement for preserving authentic records
• historigraphical studies of archival institutions
• development of archival practice and systems 
• Employs range of methods drawn from science disciplines
• surveys, structured interviews, case studies, action research, ethnography, grounded theory development, analysis of literacy warrant of best practices and narrative analysis
• Recordkeeping Professional discourse
• continuum thinking - frame of reference
• development of e-recordkeeping regines
• standards and best practices
• Collaborative
• academic and industry
• international arena
• multi-disciplinary
• Information Systems
• explore aspects of roles, functions and use in organizations and society
• quantitative - surveys, analysis of org data and case studies
• wide range of examples in leading info systems research journals
• MIS Quarterly
• Information Systems Journal
• International Journal of Information Systems Applications
• Guidelines for survey design and tested instruments - 
• ISWorld Net 
• Examples
• how chief execs in orgs conduct their work
• information they utilize
• how it supports them
• comparison of results in Australia/similar studies in US
• use of computers by senior execs
• use of info technology support mgrs coordinating network orgs
• major areas of concern (dimensions)
• coordinate operations of network org & current implementation
• relationship between info technology investment and firm performance
• document empirical findings of relationship
• future comparative study
• different cultural contexts
• investigate variations of requirement of users and approaches to reflect differences in data modeling for IT systems developement