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(2015-07-01)This study used the theory of Pierre Bourdieu to investigate what types of economic, social, cultural and symbolic capital influenced the individual academic achievement and personal life trajectories of two, female, high ...
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(2021-02-15)Through the lens of Bijker's (1995) social construction of technology (SCOT) theory, this phenomenological study examines the lived experience of catalogers and metadata specialists implementing Resource Description ...
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(2015-07-01)There are two linked fundamental crises in Information Science: an urgent need for solutions to the information explosion; and a lack of an operative metaphor upon which to base solutions. Current theoretical debates ...
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(2013-07-10)This extended case study seeks to discover the everyday life information seeking (ELIS) practices of upper income suburban teens working in a highly technological Midwestern high school library. Such a study is significant ...
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(2021-08-03)There exists a critical need to boost the overall number of baccalaureate-prepared registered nurses to accomplish goals for providing high-quality healthcare for all United States citizens (Institute of Medicine, ...
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(2021-08-05)There exists a critical need to boost the overall number of baccalaureate-prepared registered nurses to accomplish goals for providing high-quality healthcare for all United States citizens (Institute of Medicine, ...
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(2021-08-03)There exists a critical need to boost the overall number of baccalaureate-prepared registered nurses to accomplish goals for providing high-quality healthcare for all United States citizens (Institute of Medicine, 2011). ...
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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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(2015-07-01)This dissertation explores the role of social capital in the civic life of a rural community. Stockton is located on the High Plains of Kansas, an area traditionally important for farming and mineral production but ...
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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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(2015-06-15)This case study investigates what prompts male Millennials to join the historically stereotyped feminized library profession. The study addresses social, cultural, economic, and/or political factors that influence male ...
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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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(2013-07-10)This study investigates the informational needs, information seeking behavior, and information satisfaction of two Kansas State Research and Extension agents as they experienced the 2007 tornado that destroyed Greensburg, ...
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(2021-02-15)This case study is exploratory as it seeks to determine how Serbian librarians self-report their involvement in the global network society as defined by Castells and how they report this interaction as influencing their ...
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(2021-02-15)Changes in technology and consumer buying habits created a niche for independent games. Independent game designers have created both informal and formal groups for information seeking, information sharing, and information ...
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(2015-07-01)Geoscience educators use a variety of resources and resource formats in their classroom teaching to facilitate student understanding of concepts and processes that define subject areas considered in the realm of geoscience. ...
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(2015-07-01)This study investigates information needs and information-seeking behaviors of social science scholars at Sultan Qaboos University in the Sultanate of Oman, as an example of a developing country in the Middle East. Its ...
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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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(2015-07-01)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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(2015-07-21)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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