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  1. Durrance, J.C.; Fisher, K.E.: Determining how libraries and librarians help (2003) 0.11
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    Abstract
    This article examines the question, "What differences do libraries and librarians make?" primarily from the perspective of geographical communities. The article first states the reasons why this is an essential research question and describes the contributions of current public library planning tools to the determination of impact. It then takes a broad look at the framework that is essential for the intellectual development of this topic and the ability to answer the question, including methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks that will be discussed throughout. While the authors pose this research problem as an evaluation question, this article examines contributions of research in several areas--particularly professional practice, especially reference research that has been informed by qualitative methods--to its solution. Finally, the authors examine approaches to studying context as a framework for determining the impacts of library services and include a brief presentation of findings from a recent study of "How Libraries and Librarians Help: Context-Centered Methods for Evaluating Public Library Efforts at Bridging the Digital Divide and Building Community," funded by the Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS).
  2. Pettigrew, K.E.: Agents of information : the role of community health nurses in linking the elderly with local resources by providing human services information (1999) 0.09
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    Date
    22. 3.2002 8:56:51
  3. Wilkinson, M.A.; Pettigrew, K.E.: Control of community information : an analysis of roles (1996) 0.06
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  4. Naumer, C.M.; Fisher, K.E.: Information needs (2009) 0.06
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  5. Pettigrew, K.E.; Wilkinson, M.A.: Controlling the quality of community information : an analysis of the effects on dissemination of the differences between I&R agencies and community networks (1994) 0.05
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  6. Leckie, G.J.; Pettigrew, K.E.; Sylvain, C.: Modeling the information seeking of professionals : a general model derived from research on engineers, health care professionals, and lawyers (1996) 0.05
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  7. Reference services planning in the 90s (1994) 0.04
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    Content
    Enthält die Beiträge: VEANER, A.B.: Conflicts in value systems; FARIES, C.: Reference librarians in the information age: learning from the past to control the future; FORD, K.E.: Reference service in rural public libraries: issues and trends; PEASE, B. u. C. POWER: Reference services for off-campus students and faculty; ORGREN, C.F.: Cooperative reference service; SUMMERHILL, K.S.: The high cost of reference: the need to reassess services and service delivery; NOFSINGER, M.N. u. A.W. BOSCH: Roles of the head of reference: from the 1990s to the 21st century; TAYLOR, A.: Plan for service: professional and non-professional reference staff; FORCE, R.: Planning online reference services for the 90s; BOLIN, R.L.: The challange of CD-ROMs for libraries; SUMMERHILL, C.A.: The emerging national information infrastructure and reference services; POWELL, R.R. u. D. RABER: Education for reference/information service: a quantitative and qualitative analysis of basic reference courses; WEINGAND, D.E.: Competence and the new paradigm: continuing education of the reference staff; ENGELDINGER, E.A.: Improving reference: preliminary thoughts on a return to the classroom; BUNGE, C.A.: Evaluating reference services and reference personnel: questions and answers from the literature
  8. Spink, A.; Bray, K.E.; Jaeckel, M.; Sidberry, G.: Everyday life information-seeking by low-income African American households : Wynnewood Healthy Neighbourhood Project (1999) 0.04
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  9. Fisher, K.E.; Durrance, J.C.; Hinton, M.B.: Information grounds and the use of need-based services by immigrants in Queens, New York: : a context-based, outcome evaluation approach (2004) 0.04
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  10. Pettigrew, K.E.; Durrance, J.C.; Unruh, K.T.: Facilitating community information seeking using the Internet : findings from three public library-community network systems (2002) 0.04
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  11. Albert, E.: Vpliv knjiznicarjevega vedenja na uspesnost referencne sluzbe v Slovenskih splosnoizobrazevalnih knjiznicah (1998) 0.04
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    Abstract
    The authors are students of librarianship in the faculty of philosophy at Ljubljana University, Slovenia. Users were asked to describe their library visits and summarise what was most helpful and least helpful about the service received. In the list of best practices, the most frequent feature was that the staff member really listened (58,9%). Other aspects of most helpful behaviour (e.g. using different body language, showing genuine interest, willingness to investigate further) occured in less than 40% of the interviews. 3 features of least helpful behaviour were listed in more than 30% of the cases; not asking the user anything about the question and making no effort to determine the specific need, not telling the user what he/she was doing, making no effort to determine whether the user had found the relevant information
    Date
    22. 2.1999 19:29:43
  12. Theories of information behavior (2005) 0.04
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    Editor
    Fisher, K.E. u.a.
    Footnote
    Weitere Rez. in: JASIST 58(2007) no.2, S.303 (D.E. Agosto): "Due to the brevity of the entries, they serve more as introductions to a wide array of theories than as deep explorations of a select few. The individual entries are not as deep as those in more traditional reference volumes, such as The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (Drake, 2003) or The Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) (Cronin, 2005), but the overall coverage is much broader. This volume is probably most useful to doctoral students who are looking for theoretical frameworks for nascent research projects or to more veteran researchers interested in an introductory overview of information behavior research, as those already familiar with this subfield also will probably already be familiar with most of the theories presented here. Since different authors have penned each of the various entries, the writing styles vary somewhat, but on the whole, this is a readable, pithy volume that does an excellent job of encapsulating this important area of information research."
  13. Harnack, A. von: ¬Die Auskunftserteilung als bibliothekarische Aufgabe (1940) 0.03
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    Source
    Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen. 57(1940), S.16-22
  14. Thun, H.-P.: "At your fingertip"? : Auskunfts- und Informationsdienst bei uns noch Entwicklungsland (1970) 0.03
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    Bücherei und Bildung. 22(1970), S.63-71
  15. Jonzeck, M.: ¬Die Aktivierung, Verbesserung und Neuorientierung der Informationstätigkeit der allgemeinen öffentlichen Bibliotheken (1965) 0.03
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    Source
    Bibliothekar. 19(1965), S.15-22
  16. Metz, A.: Community service : a bibliography (1996) 0.03
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    Date
    17.10.1996 14:22:33
  17. Information brokers and reference services (1989) 0.03
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    Series
    Reference librarian; no.22
  18. Ulrich, P.S.: Collaborative Digital Reference Service : Weltweites Projekt (2001) 0.03
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    Date
    20. 4.2002 17:30:22
  19. Ghilardi, F.J.M.: ¬The information center of the future : the professional's role (1994) 0.03
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    Date
    27.12.2015 18:22:38
  20. Pinto, M.: Assessing disciplinary differences in faculty perceptions of information literacy competencies (2016) 0.02
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    Abstract
    Purpose - Uncovering faculty members' conceptions of Information Literacy (IL), as well as exploring their perceptions with regard to the importance given to a previously defined set of core IL competences grouped into four categories: searching, evaluation, processing and communication and dissemination. Ascertaining the possible differences among the five knowledge branches (arts and humanities, sciences, social and legal sciences, health sciences, and technical disciplines); and understanding the importance granted to a set of learning improvement initiatives by the faculty. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach - The survey was completed by a set of faculty members from the University of Granada (Spain). Data were collected using the IL-HUMASS survey. The research is based on subjective data, first approached from a descriptive point of view. Later, data correlation, analysis and non-parametric tests were used with the goal of finding significant differences of faculty perceptions among the relevant academic areas. Findings - Results suggest that more than half of the surveyed faculty have what the authors define as an Academic Concept of IL. The IL categories of communica\tion and dissemination and searching were graded in significance by the staff as being "very important," while those of evaluation and processing were assigned a slightly lesser rating of "important." Results suggest that IL awareness falls into two broad groups differentiated by subject discipline: those from health sciences, social and legal sciences and arts and humanities representing the first group, and sciences and technical disciplines the other. Research limitations/implications - This approach address the subjective status of faculty concepts in a single university, but also in all knowledge branches. Future research is needed. Originality/value - This is one of the few papers regarding faculty perceptions of IL.
    Date
    20. 1.2015 18:30:22

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