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The Pragmatic Biblioblogger is in IRSQ

I realized I hadn’t blogged this, but my article “The Pragmatic Biblioblogger: Examining the Motivations and Observations of Early Adopter Librarian Bloggers” is in Internet Reference Services Quarterly, Vol. 13, Issue 4, p311-345.

It’s been a long time since November 2005 when 238 hearty bibliobloggers took my survey. The changes since then are incredible.

My Dissertation Bound

 

My Dissertation Bound, originally uploaded by mstephens7.

I just received three bound copies of my dissertation from ProQuest.

For those who might be interested, you can download a PDF version here:

stephens-mfinal

TTW Contributor Lee LeBlanc provided these links:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6355946/Stephens-Mfinal

http://pdfmenot.com/view/http://tametheweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/stephens-mfinal.pdf

From the conclusion:

While Gorman (2005) defined a blog as “a species of interactive electronic [...]

A Long Overdue Note of Thanks

A post that is long overdue. I want to extend public thanks to Jennifer Graham and Scott Smith for the invaluable assistance they provided me as I finished my dissertation. In a way, it’s also an acknowledgement of how powerful these informal blogging connections can be. In the space of a few months Jennifer and [...]

Modeling the Role of Blogging in Librarianship: Your Blogging Journey

Measuring a phenomenon requires attention to reliability and validity. I used John Creswell’s Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (2nd Edition) as a valuable guide to the process. Creswell noted the need for validating qualitative research and describes several primary strategies of doing so, including triangulation, member-checking, use of rich, thick description, [...]

My Table at TADL

My Table at TADL

Originally uploaded by mstephens7.