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This paper reports on a study of the information behavior of Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) distance learning students in the Quinn School of Business, University College Dublin (UCD). In order to gain a better understanding of the information behaviors of distance-learning students, the study sought to answer the following research questions:
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What are the main sources of information for the BBS distance learning students?
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What are student perceptions of the virtual learning environment (VLE), Blackboard employed by the Quinn School of Business?
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To what extent, if any, is there evidence of collaborative information behaviors and practices?
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Junior Tidal 《Journal of Web Librarianship》2017,11(1):16-34
This article examines the usability testing of a responsively redesigned library Web site. Responsive design provides a unified user experience regardless of the device used to view a site. The study's aim is twofold: to determine if the responsively designed site and its external online services support users’ information seeking needs, and to discover if there is a singular experience across different devices. A cognitive walkthrough was the main testing instrument used in gathering input. Over two rounds of testing, students of various class years and technological skill from the New York City of Technology (City Tech), CUNY participated in the study. The first round of testing for this usability study on the library Web site was previously documented (Tidal 2015). This article presents the findings and comparisons between the first and second round of usability testing. The study found not only numerous improvements that could enhance the library Web site, but also the lack of a unified experience between tablet, smartphone, and desktop users, despite using a responsive design. Smartphone users were at a disadvantage in utilizing library resources. The study also found there was a significant usability impact in using a mobile-optimized discovery tool among users in comparison to its Web OPAC predecessor. 相似文献
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Web 2.0时代OPAC发展及书目创新服务的思考 总被引：24，自引：0，他引：24
简述Web2.0、图书馆2.0以及OPAC 2.0的概念和特点，从Web2.0时代图书馆OPAC“以用户为中心”的理念出发，对其相关功能的加强、改进和革新进行详细分析。在此基础上，深入思考为适应这种OPAC的发展趋势，图书馆书目服务机构应如何转变传统思路，如何为提升书目服务效率采取各项有效措施。 相似文献
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Dave Harmeyer 《The Reference Librarian》2013,54(3):254-263
This column is a collection of reference interview stories within a number of diverse mediums (chat, phone, face-to-face, immersive environments) sharing one librarian’s dialogues with a host of patrons. Some names, places, times, and events have been changed to preserve anonymity.In this reference chat transaction, you will:
Consider the reference interview as art
Know what every patron deserves
Understand two goals of chat reference
Be aware of the average time for picking up patrons
Practice statistically significant time between librarian’s posts
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《Communication Teacher》2013,27(4):206-211
Course: Public SpeakingObjectives:At the end of this activity, students will be able to:
Construct a story-based impromptu speech that holds the attention of one's audience;
Articulate how stories hold audience's attention and imagination;
Recognize relevant communication theories/concepts that effectively engage with an audience; and
Utilize specific verbal and nonverbal strategies that effectively hold an audience's attention.
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《Communication Teacher》2013,27(4):304-308
Courses Health Communication, Gender Communication, Communication and Food, Communication and Diversity, Ethnography, Critical/Cultural Studies, or Qualitative MethodsObjectives
Explain, assess, and critique the social, cultural, and political discourses related to food.
Analyze how communication about food reflects and influences issues of inequality.
Examine and alter damaging racist, sexist, and classist stereotypes of low income people and SNAP recipients.
Practice composing scholarship informed by communication theories and personal health behavior.
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Liliana Herakova 《Communication Teacher》2017,31(1):1-5
Courses: Public Speaking, Storytelling, Performance Ethnography, Oral Interpretation, Language and Communication
Objectives: The aims of this this class exercise are:
To engage in a collaborative creative process of developing a story/topic from a simple idea to deepening the relationship with the audience through vivid and evocative language;
To practice the use of various linguistic devices and figures of speech;
To gain an understanding of the affective and relational functions of language; and
To gain performance practice.
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Elizabeth B. Jones 《Communication Teacher》2017,31(4):193-197
Courses: Interpersonal communication, relational communication, language and social interaction, professional communication, interviewing practices
Objectives: This single class activity enables students to understand the theoretical foundations of conversation and to develop their conversational skills by talking in dyads with classmates. Upon completion of this activity, students will be able to:
Understand the importance of conversational skill across communication contexts;
Identify the four maxims of Grice’s cooperative principle within their conversations;
Recognize the factors that affect language use (gender, intimacy, and power) within their conversations; and
Produce communication strategies for furthering conversation in future face-to-face and mediated interactions.
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《Communication Teacher》2013,27(4):276-280
Graduate courses are designed to help students learn discipline-specific knowledge, theories, and methods, but also to socialize them into the larger professional network. The awards assignment in this paper is designed to familiarize students with a wide variety of scholars and research within a field of study, to engage them creatively with synthesizing and assessing a field of study, to build strong arguments, and to enhance their socialization and networking opportunities.Course: Any graduate-level survey course focused on a particular area of communication studies (e.g. instructional communication, health communication, family communication).Objectives:
(1)?Understand the historical, philosophical, and foundational roots of a field of study, including people, concepts, theories, and research studies.
(2)?Critically evaluate scholars, constructs, theories, and research.
(3)?Develop sound and supported arguments regarding critical evaluations and decisions.
(4)?Socialize students into a field of study.
(5)?Begin building students’ scholarly networking opportunities.
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基于Web3.0的OPAC构想 总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3
OPAC作为用户访问图书馆资源的门户,体现了图书馆的服务能力和水平,在信息技术高速发展,文献类型快速增长的今天,传统的OPAC不能满足用户的需求。利用Web3.0技术与理念,使OPAC脱离ILS的束缚,建立检索范围广泛、书目内容丰富、文献内容相关联、检索高效准确、检索结果按相关度排序、以用户为中心、读者高度参与的OPAC,可以将图书馆的服务延伸到图书馆之外,提高图书馆资源的利用率。 相似文献
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《Journal of Web Librarianship》2013,7(3):161-175
ABSTRACTThe primary purpose of an academic library Web site is to serve as a portal to library-acquired content. Navigational design of a library Web site affects the user's ability to find and access content. At Albertsons Library, the goal of the navigational design of the Web site is to mimic user behavior on the Web site to help them access information and articles from over 300 different library vendors. Coordinating with different vendors makes tracking the navigational flow of user behavior difficult with the tool Google Analytics. Using the events feature in Google Analytics, the team responsible for Web design was able to track user flow, and was able to quantify how many users were actual “drop-offs” versus those that were clicks into library resources. Decisions made after acquiring these data resulted in a Web site with a 10 percent or less bounce rate, and decreased the number of clicks required for users accessing the library's content. 相似文献
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《Communication Teacher》2013,27(2):94-99
Objectives: The purpose of this assignment is to increase students’ understanding of health campaign messages and material design. Upon completing this assignment, students should be able to:
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Understand the importance of effective health campaign material design and the potential problems and implications of ineffective health campaign materials,
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Evaluate health campaign materials for clarity and readability, and
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Design effective health campaign materials that are clear and readable for the lay person.
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《Journal of Web Librarianship》2013,7(1):37-54
Web site usage statistics are a widely used tool for Web site development, but libraries are still learning how to use them successfully. This case study summarizes how Morris Library at Southern Illinois University Carbondale implemented Google Analytics on its Web site and used the reports to inform a site redesign. As the main campus library at a research university with about 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students, the library included resources from multiple library departments on a single site. In planning the redesign, Morris Library's Virtual Library Group combined usage reports with information from other sources, such as usability tests and user comments. The Virtual Library Group faced barriers to interpreting and applying the usage statistics in the site redesign, including some that were specific to the library's implementation of the Google Analytics tool and some limitations inherent with Web usage statistics in general. Some key barriers in applying the usage statistics to a redesign included sifting through data that did not have implications for the site redesign, interpreting the implications of usage numbers for the site redesign, and balancing competing interests within the library. Nevertheless, the usage statistics enabled the Virtual Library Group to make better decisions by providing a source of factual information about the site's use rather than relying on staff members’ opinions and conjectures. 相似文献
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《Journal of Web Librarianship》2013,7(2-3):429-455
ABSTRACT Can we use the methods of Web usability testing to learn about library instruction? This article is among the first in the field trying to establish a link between usability and instruction. The author discusses useful insights that Web usability can bring to our pedagogy as well as to the efficiency of library instruction. The result of a Web usability study conducted at LaGuardia Community College in 2005 are examined. Findings suggest direct relationships between what is being taught in library instruction sessions and how students browse and search library resources. The author discusses vocabulary test results and draws some parallel with students' success at finding information on the library Web site. Finally, a conceptual model of library instruction assessment through usability studies is presented. The author hopes to provide an innovative approach to library instruction assessment. 相似文献
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This is an exploratory study of public library services in Singapore for young people (defined as those people between thirteen to nineteen years of age) who are wheelchair bound. The research was carried out originally in 2000, but the study still informs policy makers in the Singapore system. Three main research questions are explored:
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What are the information needs of wheelchair-bound young people?
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What are their perceptions of libraries and library services?
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What are the problems they face in using library facilities and services?
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Organizational Surveys: A System for Employee Voice 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Vickie Cox Edmondson 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(4):307-310
Although surveys are often used to assess and track employee attitudes and opinions over time and are used quite frequently by applied communication researchers, the use of surveys as a channel to voice employee attitudes and opinions has not been fully explored in the employee voice or basic organizational communication literature. With the increased call for accountability, effective applied communication researchers can play an important role in ensuring that organizations engage in the survey process in a manner that is “safe” for employees, and ethical and practical for the organization. Because the question of how to accomplish this task is complex and cannot be fully addressed within the constraints of a commentary, I offer three general principles to guide future researchers in helping overcome organizational communication problems:
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Build trust in the organizational survey process, the researcher(s), and the organization.
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Eliminate the adversarial relationship that often exists between management and employees who speak up.
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Provide evidence that the organization does more than purport to value the things that it says it values.
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Introduction
The health care industry is rich in data and information. Web technologies, such as search engines and social media, have provided an opportunity for the management of user generated data in real time in the form of infodemiology studies. The aim of this study was to investigate infodemiology studies conducted during 2002–2016, and compare them based on developed, developing and in transition countries.Methods
This scoping review was conducted in 2017 with the help of the PRISMA guidelines. PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar, Wiley and Springer databases were searched between the years 2002 and 2016. Finally, 56 articles were included in the review and analysed.Results
The initial infodemiology studies pertain to the quality assessment of the hospital's websites. Most of the studies were on developed countries, based on flu, and published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.Conclusion
The infodemiology approach provides unmatched opportunities for the management of health data and information generated by the users. Using this potential will provide unique opportunities for the health information need assessment in real time by health librarians and thereby provide evidence based health information to the people.19.
《Journal of Web Librarianship》2013,7(1):45-55
As free and low-cost Web analytics tools become more sophisticated, libraries’ approach to user analysis can become more nuanced and precise. Tracking appropriate metrics with a well-formulated analytics program can inform design decisions, demonstrate the degree to which those decisions have succeeded, and thereby inform the next iteration in the design process. The Health Sciences Libraries of the University of Minnesota have been using Google Analytics as their primary analytics solution since 2005, and as Google has continued to add functionality and flexibility to the platform, the Health Sciences Libraries has capitalized on the opportunities made available. In this article the author outlines the Health Sciences Libraries strategy for using Google Analytics and describes several of the more novel methods they have developed, providing a roadmap for others seeking to strengthen their understanding of the behavior of users on their library's Web sites. 相似文献
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Lai Yeen Pong 《International Information and Library Review》2013,45(3):163-179
This paper traces the development of computerisation of library operations in Singapore from 1970–1989. Two levels of computerisation are examined, namely:
(i) institutional level, and
(ii) network or national level.