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Ritchie, Cristina Sacco – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2011
This study investigated how school librarians perceive their status within the school by looking at factors suggested by the literature as either impacting on, or impacted by, status: their relationships with their colleagues and supervisors, their role within the school, job satisfaction, and views on their careers and their training. Most…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, School Libraries, Foreign Countries, Librarians
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Sutlieff, Lisa; Chelin, Jackie – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2010
This research investigated the importance of user-library trust in ensuring vital freedom of inquiry in academic libraries, exploring its strength through comparison with attitudes towards the National Identity Card Scheme (NICS) within the various libraries of a large UK university. An online survey of students and interviews with librarians…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Academic Freedom, Student Attitudes, Academic Libraries
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Thompson, Bruce; Kyrillidou, Martha; Cook, Colleen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007
Using LibQUAL+[R] data provided by 295,355 of the participants who completed the LibQUAL+[R] survey in 2003, 2004, and 2005, the present study was conducted to address three research questions. First, what differences, if any, have occurred across time in the use by (a) undergraduates, (b) graduate students/postgraduates, and (c) faculty of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Library Services, Surveys, Librarians
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Maynard, Sally; MacKay, Sophie; Smyth, Fiona – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2008
This article reports on selected results of a comprehensive survey of children's reading in England, carried out online in 2005 by the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Roehampton University. With 4182 responses from children living in England aged from 4 to 16 years, the survey is a follow-up to a similar study completed in…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, School Libraries, Foreign Countries, Book Reviews
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Kinsella, Janet; Bryant, Philip – Library Trends, 1987
Reviews recent and current research and development projects in the United Kingdom dealing with online information systems. Main areas of research (systems design, impact on user behavior and organizational structure, ergonomics and bibliographic factors) and research techniques (features analysis, transaction log analysis, surveys and comparative…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Evaluation Methods