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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Library Use"”.
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HOW CONTEXT MATTERS IN DIGITAL LIBRARY USE
… how organizational context contributes to the use of digital libraries, an ICT-enabled information infrastructure. Traditionally digital-library use is measured with the help of statistical analysis of download and other related data, but statistics alone have limited power to explain how such …
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Disciplinary Differences Between Faculty in Library Use and Perceptions
… provides little in terms of general faculty use or perceptions in relation to the library. In many institutions, liaisons reject the results and recommendations of these studies as not generalizable to their specific situation and instead are reactive, responding to the immediate needs of the …
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A library use study of Deptford High School seniors' English paper resources
… study was to determine and compare the resources used by high school students enrolled in honors, college preparatory, and general English courses in the completion of their research papers. This applied research study was conducted with the use of a written questionnaire, which was administered …
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A Study of the Library Use Practices of High School Students in Three East Tennessee Counties.
… was to examine how and why high school students use the library and its resources. It examined how teachers influence students' use of library resources. The participants were 11th-grade students attending public high schools in 3 east Tennessee counties. Participants completed a survey based on …
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A study of adult patron library use and satisfaction with the Federal Street branch of the Camden City Free Public Library
… Street branch of the Camden City Free Public Library. Additionally, the study measured patron satisfaction with the current level of service that the library was providing. One hundred and three responses were collected over an eight week period. Patrons were asked to evaluate twelve services …
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An analysis of school library use in Government Aided Community Junior Secondary Schools in Gaborone city and the Southern district in Botswana
… thesis explores the factors surrounding school library use or non-use of school libraries in Government Aided Community Junior Secondary Schools (GACJSS) in Botswana. Background information pertaining to the quality of teaching and learning in GACJSS in Botswana is provided, highlighting policy …
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Understanding Public Library Services and Use: A Structural Equation Modeling Framework
… factors measuring service availability and library use within the context of matched community demographic data. The process of using theory-based data analysis to investigate publicly-available data is examined. Key findings include acceptable estimates of goodness-of-fit for hypothesized …
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The librarians' axiom: a "flat earth theory"? : the case of the Saldanha Municipality Libraries during the Great Recession
The Librarians' Axiom is the theory that library usage goes up during an economic recession. This Axiom is supported by anecdotal evidence in the literature, but lacks statistical support. This dissertation attempts to fill that gap by looking at library use of the 10 libraries in the Saldanha Bay …
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The impact of the Internet on reference services in higher education libraries in South Africa
… services by exploring the following areas: user Internet access and training in the library, use and integration of the Internet as an information tool in reference services and the Internet training and knowledge of reference librarians.
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Library instruction in a community college: a study to determine the comparative effectiveness of classroom teaching and a video self-instruction unit for developmental and degree-program students
The study attempted to determine if library skills in a community college could be taught more effectively within a one-class-period time frame by a video self-instruction unit or by classroom teaching. The experiment also considered the comparative effectiveness of both modes of instruction when …
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Three Essays in Public Economics
… may have decreased as patrons shift from library use to bookstore use, increasing inefficiency. In the final chapter of this dissertation a stochastic cost frontier and the determinants of cost inefficiency are estimated using a one-step maximum likelihood technique. The results suggest …
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International, National, and Local Notions of the Public Library: An extended case study in Namibia
<p>This dissertation is a study of library use in a poor neighborhood in Windhoek, Namibia, to understand the diffusion of public libraries around the world. I used a sociological approach and the Extended Case Method (Burawoy, 1991; 1998). Two theories framed the research: World Society Theory …
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The effects of collaboration between the elementary teacher and educational media specialist on non-required student library usage
… in third grade students' non-required school library uses if collaboration on a weekly basis between the educational media specialist and classroom teacher was present. The study contained one experimental group, consisting of one class of third grade students who received collaborative …
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Foreign Students and U.S. Academic Libraries: A Case Study of Foreign Students and Libraries in Two Universities in New Orleans, Louisiana
… difficulties foreign students encounter in their use of U.S. academic libraries, their patterns of library use, and the nature of libraries in their countries. A questionnaire was sent to all foreign students at Tulane University and the University of New Orleans. A total of 388 responses out of …
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Necessidades e uso de informação: um estudo com os alunos da Faculdade de Formação de Professores de Goiana
Knowing the user's information and set goals to meet your needs is no easy task, if the subject is the university library, compound the difficulties. To alleviate this problem is that the study was conducted involving users of the University Library John Suassuna Melo's nephew FFPG, aiming to …
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Satisfação dos usuários da biblioteca do polo presencial da UFPB no município de Mari/PB
The research has the purpose to analyze the use and informal needs of the UFPB Virtual Presence Pole Library in Mari/PB District. The theorist referential mentions about the users study, information necessity and universitarian library. The research is of descriptive and exploratory manner and …
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From Parent to Child: The Effects of a Home Learning Program on Attitudes and Achievements
… onset age of reading aloud, frequency of library use and the education level of the parents. Parents in the treatment group expressed an eagerness to participate in their children's early reading experiences. Progress in the program, however, was consistently reported to be child and not …
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Reading habits and interests of parents and their influence on the reading habits and interests of their children in Umlazi Township
… material (61.7%), and encouragement of public library use (78.7%). The findings also indicated that factors such as TV watching, listening to the radio, lack of public libraries, inadequately trained teacher-librarians, and lack of encouragement from teachers to use the school library had a …
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Baseball and Books
… streetscape of downtown Roanoke. A new branch library and baseball stadium is set to open soon. The site is near the edge of downtown Roanoke, Virginia at the intersection of Jefferson St. and Elm Ave. All the construction is complete and cleared away. Residents and employees all around Roanoke …
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