Types of Studies Less than a full blown study: Pilot Study: Navigation, procedural type of study. Could be running through a new instrument with a few people to see if it works and what kind of data you get. “Quick and Dirty” data analysis. Should not be published. Preliminary Study: Related to pilot, a first step to a large study. “To see what’s out there.” People do publish these. Exploratory Study: Related to pilot, a first step to a large study. “To see what’s out there.” People do publish these. Research methods Descriptive: Oriented toward the research methods than the […]
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I presented my research proposal. This is the PPT I used. It has flaws but take a look… I learned a lot from this and realize I have a lot to do to get a study going.
I’m off to Denton tomorrow for our last weekend of class for the year! I’ll write from there. I’m presenting my paper about Blogs and virtual communities to the class Friday morning.
TTW posts will be on hiatus (unless I jot down a quick one in a moment of inspiration) while I finish my research proposal due Sunday night. My topic? The Blogosphere as virtual community. I’ll be back next weekk — but guess what – I head to Texas on Thursday for class… the last of the semester! It’s snowing hard here in northern Indiana. I’m glad to be home a few days to write and be with the boys.
University of North Texas School of Library and Information Sciences has just been informed that we have received additional funds for a grant to help prepare faculty to teach public librarians. If you or anyone you know is interested in this opportunity, please read the attached letter. This Distance-Independent Ph.D. Program provides two years paid tuition, with travel assistance to institutes and computer broadband connectivity. The deadline for the application to be complete is December 15; however, since this notification is coming out so late we will allow the following exception: – If your SLIS application, vita/resume, writing sample, and […]
Joyce just made my morning: http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=47 Ordered! I am excited about this! Today I am writing an outline for a research porposal to examine the LIS Blogosphere… this book will be an incredible help! Steven sent me an article last week by Clyde on the same topic that I’ve been carrying around since.
I am relaxing in my hotel room… just set up my Airport Express and got into my aggregator to read the news. This weekend we give presentations on our literature reviews. I am going to present on current research in information beahvior in virtual communities. Here’s the PPT if you’re interested!
I have a literature review due October 17. I leave for England on the 6th and return on the 16th… so the next four days are devoted to writing 16-20 pages on virtual communities from the articles you see above. It is incredibly interesting and feels like some of the most challenging writing I have ever done!
Bumped into a new SJCPL librarian outside the building this afternoon. He’s starting the MLS program via IUPUI. We talked GRE, math horror stories and about the mysteries of UNIX. He started the conversation with “Did you just take the GRE?” Mind racing I thought he’d been at the testing center or had seen me racing away from it after commiting to my scores (don’t ask! — i almost laughed out loud at some of the math parts)…. “I read your blog” he said. Coolness. At least the GRE is over! Now I am working on a big paper — […]
I heart PDFs today! I haven’t written much about my studies lately because frankly that’s what I have been doing! Currently I am doing literature reviews and amassing PDFs of articles like crazy via all of our access provided by the very cool UNT library as well as my own library and