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(2015-07-01)This study explored what team members think of teams. A phenomenological inquiry perspective, qualitative research methods, and a case study approach were utilized in this study. Teamwork actions were observed in the ...
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(2015-07-01)The research project is a single case study of a clergy member's Sense-Making behavior in the interpretation of Scripture for the weekly Sunday sermon. Dervin's Sense-Making Theory provides the interpretative framework ...
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(2015-07-01)Located at the Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, the Tommaney Library serves the students and faculty at this school, which is dedicated to Indigenous Americans. The purpose of this study is to explore ...
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(2015-07-01)International partnerships between libraries are an oft-used approach to transferring professional knowledge across national borders, with the intent of developing the profession in both nations. Unfortunately, such ...
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(2015-07-01)The user-centered approach to understanding information use and users has shaped research in library and information science (LIS). User-centered research has contributed to work in libraries, including work in reference, ...
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(2015-07-01)Standards establishing effective school library programs have been described in Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning (AASL & AECT, 1998), which calls on the librarian to act as an instructional partner ...
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(2015-07-01)This study investigated how genealogists search for and gather information in contexts rich in genealogical information. It assumed a constructionist paradigm, acknowledging that all knowledge is created through language, ...
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(2015-07-01)This dissertation, based on a research study undertaken during the fall of 2008, sought to understand the experiences of children in order to inform school library media specialists' practice in fostering the development ...
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(2015-07-01)Taking a critical realist constructionist perspective and using Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis as a methodology, the aims of this study were to: 1) identify and describe interpretative repertoires activated ...
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(2015-07-01)This study explored entrepreneurship within the context of the online auction eBay to determine how this population locates and uses inform ation. Following assumptions of the interpretive paradigm and a grounded theory ...
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(2015-07-21)The purpose of this study was to discover the experience of graduate students who read fiction as part or all of the curriculum materials for a course in their program. This use of fiction has received attention in recent ...
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(2015-07-21)This is a qualitative study of the work of art therapists. Eleven art therapists were interviewed and/or observed within their professional systems and the interactions between their theories and their actual practices ...
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(2015-07-21)The information transfer process in the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) Board of Directors (BOD) organization Education Reform (ER) decision was evaluated using complexity analysis with grounded theory ...
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(2015-07-21)This dissertation has examined the relationship between individual, technological, and informational factors and the behavioral intention to buy and sell online. In addition to this examination, moderating influences of ...
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(2015-07-21)This study explored what goes on during the curbside consultation, a type of informal conversation between physicians for the purpose of managing a patient case. The study used a naturalistic inquiry perspective, qualitative ...
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(2015-07-21)How government developed the Government Information Locator Service (GILS) is the focus of this dissertation. It is a qualitative analysis based on the social systems theory of Niklas Luhmann (1982, 1990b, and 1995). Data ...
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(2015-12-14)Using Dervin’s (1983) Sense-making methodology related to communication-as-procedure including situation defining strategies, communication tactics, and addressing differences as the theoretical framework, this case study ...
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(2016-12-06)Using Taylor’s (1991) Information Use Environment (IUE) theory, this phenomenological study explores the experiences of rural homeless people and the phenomenon of problem solving while living in a 24-hour rural homeless ...
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(2017-09-11)Research indicates that emotional-social intelligence is essential in providing quality customer service. Library and information science (LIS) literature emphases the need to know more about the skill set librarians need ...
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(2017-09-11)This case study investigates the epistemological ideas that inform the development and implementation of medical information literacy education in colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs). The investigation addresses the ...
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