Academic librarians as practitioner-researchers

Watson-Boone, Rebecca

doi:10.1016/s0099-1333(99)00144-5

Cited by 51 publications

(26 citation statements)

References 9 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…We focused on a continuing education experience that would teach or review the research procedures outlined in Rebecca Watson-Boone's article "Academic Librarians as Practitioner-Researchers." 13 To assess how academic librarians currently participate in research, describe their own research design backgrounds, rate their own confidence levels in performing the discrete tasks of a research project, and report on institutional support for research, we designed and implemented a national survey targeting academic librarians. This study is exploratory in nature; it was not designed to draw conclusions about the population of academic research librarians.…”

Section: Problem Statementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Academic Librarian Research: A Survey of Attitudes, Involvement, and Perceived Capabilities

Kennedy

Brancolini²

2012

CRL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article reports on the development and results of a recent survey of academic librarians about their attitudes, involvement, and perceived capabilities using and engaging in primary research. The purpose of the survey was to inform the development of a continuing education program in research design. It updates earlier studies of academic librarian research; with the introduction of a confidence scale, it also contributes new insights regarding how prepared librarians believe themselves to be with regard to conducting research. The authors found that confidence in one's ability to perform the discrete steps in the research process is a statistically significant predictor of a librarian conducting research and disseminating the results. The analysis of the responses to the confidence scale and other survey questions suggests several paths for future research about academic librarians and their research agendas.ibrarians in an academic setting are integrally involved with providing research services to faculty, students, and staff of higher education institutions. Though familiar with the research process and responsible for supporting others in their academic agendas, it is said, "librarians generally do not publish their research." Motivated by a desire to help academic librarians improve their research skills and, thus, the quantity and quality of their research, the authors of this study explore ways in which librarians have developed these skills in the past and how that process might be improved in the future.crl-276

show abstract

Section: Problem Statementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Academic Librarian Research: A Survey of Attitudes, Involvement, and Perceived Capabilities

Kennedy

Brancolini²

2012

CRL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…However, when librarians operate in an environment that requires research and publication but is unable to provide enough time to conduct research that is independent of the workplace, this option provides an opportunity. 100 Additionally, it may be time for university administrators to consider the applicability of research being done at their institutions on the impact of long work hours on workers, their families, their employers, and their communities with respect to their librarians and faculty. In 2006, Caruso reviewed the literature in this area, identifying potential issues in the areas of health, family issues such as parenting and responsibility for aging parents, productivity, workplace errors, and community involvement.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fostering Research and Publication in Academic Libraries

Sassen

Wahl²

2014

CRL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study concerns administrative support provided to encourage the research and publishing activities of academic librarians working in Association of Research Libraries member libraries. Deans and directors of these libraries were asked to respond to an online survey concerning the support measures that their libraries provide, as well as their thoughts on support measures that academic libraries should provide. When compared to earlier studies, the survey results indicate that most support measures have grown over time. Results also suggest increases in the requirements for publication in academic libraries, as well as in the number of libraries at which librarians have faculty status.esearch and publication are included in the requirements for promotion and tenure or continuing appointment at many academic libraries. However, not all academic librarians are prepared to meet these requirements because of time constraints and a lack of training. In many cases, academic librarians received little or no training in research methodology or scholarly writing in their graduate library education.1 A 2010 study of 49 library and information sciences programs accredited by the American Library Association revealed that only 61 percent of the programs required their students to take a research methods course. 2An academic librarian who has not written a thesis or dissertation almost certainly has a less rigorous educational background in research methods than the typical teaching faculty member. In most cases, the typical teaching faculty member acquired research skills by designing and conducting research, and then by documenting and defending this research in a doctoral dissertation. A faculty member who has gone through this process benefits in several ways.3 The process of preparing a dissertation provides experience in research, writing, and scholarship that is much more extensive than the usual graduate school research paper. The dissertation may be reworked into a series of articles and may serve as a platform for further research. The dissertation advisors help the student assimilate into academia by serving as writing and research mentors as well as academic coaches. This graduate education experience prepares students for the rights and responsibilities of faculty membership by stressing the values of academic freedom, scientific norms, research methodology, and the ethics of scholarship.

show abstract

“…The authors do not clearly relate the results to the literature cited (e.g., Watson-Boone, 2000), nor do they provide meaningful conclusions about the utility of the results for library practice or future practitioner research.…”

Section: Commentarymentioning

confidence: 91%

Library and Information Science Research Literature is Chiefly Descriptive and Relies Heavily on Survey and Content Analysis Methods

Coates¹

2015

EBLIP

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

the terms of the Creative Commons-AttributionNoncommercial-Share Alike License 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, not used for commercial purposes, and, if transformed, the resulting work is redistributed under the same or similar license to this one. AbstractObjective -To compare the research articles produced by library and information science (LIS) practitioners, LIS academics, and collaborations between practitioners and academics.Design -Content analysis.Setting -English-language LIS literature from 2008 through 2012.

show abstract

Academic librarians as practitioner-researchers

Cited by 51 publications

References 9 publications

Academic Librarian Research: A Survey of Attitudes, Involvement, and Perceived Capabilities

Academic Librarian Research: A Survey of Attitudes, Involvement, and Perceived Capabilities

Fostering Research and Publication in Academic Libraries

Library and Information Science Research Literature is Chiefly Descriptive and Relies Heavily on Survey and Content Analysis Methods

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About