Monday, March 19, 2012

Libr 285 Social Research Methods

Wonderful articles -- great subjects!!

Carmichael, James. "`They Sure Got to Prove It on Me': Millennial Thoughts on Gay Archives, Gay Biography, and Gay..." Libraries & Culture, 35.1 (2000): 88-102.


The American Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Task Force (GLBTRT)* justly takes pride of place as the first professional gay organization in the world.1 While the ALA itself ended discrimination based on sexual orientation in 1974, antipathy to gay issues within the profession is by no means dormant. At the same time, the growth in gay archives and gay studies in the past twenty-five years has been phenomenal. Gay librarians and archivists can continue to play an increasingly important role in promoting these collections and their use, but only if they understand the full range of historical problems that gay history and biography present. Where appropriate, library historians should also chronicle the achievements of gay library worthies.

Dochterman, M. A., & Stamp, G. H. (2010). Part 1: The determination of web credibility: A thematic analysis of web user's [sic] judgments. Qualitative Research Reports In Communication, 11(1), 37-43. doi:10.1080/17459430903514791

Saad, M., & Zainab, A. N. (2009). An investigation of information seeking behavior of Computer Science and Information Technology undergraduates: a qualitative approach. Malaysian Journal Of Library & Information Science14(3), 15-34.

Mehra, B., Black, K., Singh, V., & Nolt, J. (2011). What is the Value of LIS Education? A Qualitative Study of the Perspectives of Tennessee's Rural Librarians. Journal of Education for Library & Information Science, 52(4), 265-278.