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Ethical perspectives on data and software sharing in the sciences: A research agenda
Publication date: October 2017 Source:Library & Information Science Research, Volume 39, Issue 4 Author(s): Peter T. Darch, Emily J.M. Knox Data and software are critical components of scientific work. Increased data and software sharing promises many benefits for science. Many stakeholders are building infrastructure and implementing policies to promote sharing. However, sharing remains rare in practice. Attention must be paid to researchers' ethical perspectives on sharing to fully realize the promise of sharing and promote greater circulation of data and software and better uptake of infrastructure for data ...
Source: Library and Information Science Research - November 29, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

A multimodal critical discourse analysis of anti-vaccination information on Facebook
Publication date: October 2017 Source:Library & Information Science Research, Volume 39, Issue 4 Author(s): Jinxuan Ma, Lynne Stahl In light of recent outbreaks of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases, childhood vaccination has been the subject of significant attention and controversy. Much information seeking and debates about vaccines take place on social media, yet the effects of information context-specific factors on parental information seeking and sharing and information source assessment remain unknown. Through the lenses of reductionist thinking and cognitive authority, this study employed a ...
Source: Library and Information Science Research - November 29, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Research methods: What's in the name?
This study is one of the many efforts to facilitate a better understanding of research methods in LIS and help scholars make more informed decisions about research method selection in their endeavors. Its implications can be extended to LIS research education, training, and advocacy. Because research methods themselves are not discipline-specific, researchers beyond the LIS field would benefit from this study as well. (Source: Library and Information Science Research)
Source: Library and Information Science Research - November 29, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Don't they teach that in high school? Examining the high school to college information literacy gap
This study explores these questions through a set of parallel surveys sent to a national sample of high school and college librarians. Findings suggest that high school and college librarians agree on the importance of most skills though they vary in their emphasis on their importance, and that information literacy skills are being taught in high school but do not seem to transfer to college. The paper concludes with suggestions for increased communication and collaboration to bridge the high school to college transition. (Source: Library and Information Science Research)
Source: Library and Information Science Research - November 29, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Caregivers' beliefs about library visits: A theory-based study of formative research
Publication date: October 2017 Source:Library & Information Science Research, Volume 39, Issue 4 Author(s): Hanna Schmidt, Kyra Hamilton Currently, no research has systematically investigated the beliefs underpinning caregivers' intentions to visit public libraries with their young children. Drawing from the theory of planned behaviour, this study adopted a three-phase program of formative research to examine the decision making processes of parents and carers with young children living in a low socio-economic area. Phase 1 identified seven behavioural, five normative, and ten control beliefs as modal salient b...
Source: Library and Information Science Research - November 29, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

The effects of inquiry-based information literacy instruction on memory and comprehension: A longitudinal study
This study examines the effects of six-year integrated information literacy instruction on elementary students' memory and comprehension of subject content through inquiry learning and also focuses on the moderating factor of students' academic achievement levels. The subjects were 75 students participating in the study from the time when they entered elementary school. The school adopted information literacy instruction and integrated it into various subject areas using the framework of inquiry learning, for example, the Super3 and Big6 models. A total of 11 inquiry learning projects were implemented from Grade 1 through ...
Source: Library and Information Science Research - November 29, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Acknowledgments and News
Publication date: October 2017 Source:Library & Information Science Research, Volume 39, Issue 4 (Source: Library and Information Science Research)
Source: Library and Information Science Research - October 24, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Urban exploration: Secrecy and information creation and sharing in a hobby context
Publication date: July 2017 Source:Library & Information Science Research, Volume 39, Issue 3 Author(s): Crystal Fulton Urban exploration is a hobby that involves visiting and capturing visual images of urban infrastructure often no longer used, including sewers, towers, factories, and military instalments. Hobbyists then frequently share their visual content via social media sites. The urban explorer's multi-layered construction of content offers an important opportunity to understand how people create information and share experiences and content in a hobby context. Data were gathered through face-to-face inte...
Source: Library and Information Science Research - August 5, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

A scoping review of individual differences in information seeking behavior and retrieval research between 2000 and 2015
This study represents an essential first step to developing a more systematic investigation of individual differences research and connecting individual research studies to anchor and guide future work. (Source: Library and Information Science Research)
Source: Library and Information Science Research - July 28, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

New wine in new bottles
Publication date: July 2017 Source:Library & Information Science Research, Volume 39, Issue 3 Author(s): Candy Schwartz (Source: Library and Information Science Research)
Source: Library and Information Science Research - July 28, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Vision, innovation, and leadership in research libraries
This study examined the relationship of research library visions, as embodied in a publicly posted vision statement, and the innovativeness of the library. The literature on organizational vision is abundant and generally reveals a positive relationship between vision, visionary leadership, and a variety of organizational factors. Many researchers state that a vision, communicated throughout the organization, is a critical element of organizational success and those entities without a vision are “stumbling in the dark”. In this study, library professionals rated each research library vision statement based on establish...
Source: Library and Information Science Research - July 26, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Social scientists' data reuse behaviors: Exploring the roles of attitudinal beliefs, attitudes, norms, and data repositories
This study explores the data reuse behaviors of social scientists in order to better understand both the factors that influence those social scientists' intentions to reuse data and the extent to which those factors influence actual data reuse. Using an integrated theoretical model developed from the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the technology acceptance model (TAM), this study provides a broad explanation of the relationships among factors influencing social scientists' data reuse. A total of 292 survey responses were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings suggest that social scientists' data reuse ...
Source: Library and Information Science Research - July 26, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

A clickstream data analysis of Chinese academic library OPAC users' information behavior
In this study, a transaction log file from a typical next-generation OPAC, the Wuhan University Library OPAC, formed the basis for an investigation of users' information behavior, using a clickstream data analysis framework. The 26,732,368 clickstream records in the original log file were cleaned, parsed, coded, then analyzed at the footprint, movement, and pathway levels. The results showed that the users relied heavily on the single-box simple search interface, seldom involved themselves in an exploratory search process, and preferred page navigation over search refinement when interacting with search results. The OPAC w...
Source: Library and Information Science Research - July 26, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Observing preschool storytime practices in Aotearoa New Zealand's urban public libraries
This study explores how preschool storytimes in public libraries in Aotearoa New Zealand incorporate practices which have been identified as beneficial for children's early literacy skills. The results of observations of storytimes in four public library services are reported, focusing on whether they included activities that foster six key literacy skills: print motivation; phonological awareness; vocabulary; narrative skills; print awareness and print concepts; and letter awareness. The results indicate that the storytimes observed focused strongly on techniques to increase children's print motivation, and other skills, ...
Source: Library and Information Science Research - July 26, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Measures of greatness: A Lotkaian approach to literary authors using OCLC WorldCat
This study examines the productivity, eminence, and impact of literary authors using Lotka's law, a bibliometric approach developed for studying the published output of scientists. Data on literary authors were drawn from two recent surveys that identified and ranked authors who had made the greatest contributions to world literature. Data on the number of records of works by and about selected authors were drawn from OCLC WorldCat in 2007 and 2014. Findings show that the distribution of literary authors followed a pattern consistent with Lotka's law and show that these studies enable one to empirically test subjective ran...
Source: Library and Information Science Research - July 25, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research