When Librarians Hit the Books: Uses of and Attitudes Toward E-Books     

Katherine Hanz  Dawn McKinnon 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2018,44(1):1-14

Librarians offer a unique perspective on e-books: on one hand they collect these resources and train users as part of their jobs, while on the other hand, they may be users of e-books themselves. With recent increases in research expectations for Canadian academic librarians, this study aimed to discover: when librarians do research, do they use e-books and how often are they using them? This study examines the results of a survey of 392 academic librarians from across Canada. The survey generated data on librarians' use of, and attitudes towards, e-books. While a number of studies examine the use and opinions of e-books among other user groups, this study examines how librarians search for or use e-books differently than other user groups. Results will help librarians to improve their liaison work and make more informed collection development decisions at their own institutions.  相似文献   

Researching up and across in physical education and sport pedagogy: methodological lessons learned from an intergenerational narrative inquiry     

Steven B. Rynne  Eimear Enright  Laura Alfrey 《Sport, Education and Society》2017,22(1):140-156

Of issue in this paper are the ways in which different forms of narrative may be of value in undertaking research in potentially thorny situations. The project that inspired this paper saw 30 Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (PESP) Early Career Academics (ECAs) from more than 20 universities across Australasia, North America and Europe, provide narrative accounts of their ongoing academic experiences. From these stories, three letters seeking advice and guidance from leaders in the field were constructed. Following further feedback from the ECAs, the 3 letters were sent to 11 professors in the PESP field with a request to respond, also in letter form. The composite letters and the professorial responses were then the subject of a symposium at an international PESP conference. While the larger project engages with questions of being and becoming an academic in the neoliberal university, this paper is primarily concerned with methodological issues, including our steps and missteps with narrative, inquiry and the field. More specifically, the focus is on narrative as both the method and phenomena of study. As such, we consider issues associated with using dialogue as data, the provocation of participants, as well as both the presentation and representation of data and the relative power of the participants. In doing so, we critically engage with issues of anonymity (or lack thereof), the practice of ‘researching up’ and finally reach the conclusion that the careful approach to data generation, treatment and presentation necessitated by this project, should be a more regular feature of all qualitative inquiry.  相似文献   

Reimaging Public Libraries as Learning Communities: What Library Stories Can Tell Us     

Deborah Eicher-Catt  Mina Edmondson 《Public Library Quarterly》2016,35(3):203-221

This article describes a study conducted in York County, Pennsylvania, on its countywide library system framed within the context of the statewide “Reimaging Libraries” Get Storied initiative, developed and marketed by organizational story consultant, Michael Margolis. Understood as an essential aspect of culture re-imaging and change, narratives were collected from library personnel by undergraduate students at Pennsylvania State University-York as part of a service-learning initiative (directed by the first author). Working closely with the library district consultant (second author), we assess the success of the initiative and make some recommendations for culture reimaging through the practice of storytelling.  相似文献   

University-industry linkages in the UK: What are the factors underlying the variety of interactions with industry?   总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7  

P. D’Este  P. Patel 《Research Policy》2007,36(9):1295-1313

This paper examines the different channels through which academic researchers interact with industry and the factors that influence the researchers’ engagement in a variety of interactions. This study is based on a large scale survey of UK academic researchers. The results show that university researchers interact with industry using a wide variety of channels, and engage more frequently in the majority of the channels examined - such as consultancy & contract research, joint research, or training - as compared to patenting or spin-out activities. In explaining the variety and frequency of interactions, we find that individual characteristics of researchers have a stronger impact than the characteristics of their departments or universities. Finally, we argue that by paying greater attention to the broad range of knowledge transfer mechanisms (in addition to patenting and spin-outs), policy initiatives could contribute to building the researchers’ skills necessary to integrate the worlds of scientific research and application.  相似文献   

科研人员持续自存储行为实证研究     

李宾  袁顺波 《图书馆论坛》2020,(5):64-74

科研人员是自存储发展过程中的主体力量与关键因素,科研人员是否愿意持续将研究成果提交给自存储平台从根本上影响自存储资源建设成效。文章以期望确认模型为代表的信息技术/系统用户持续使用理论为基础,结合自存储特点,构建科研人员持续自存储行为的理论模型,据此开展调查分析。结果表明,满意度、期望确认程度、自存储理念、自存储绩效、平台质量、促成因素以及感知风险等对科研人员的持续自存储行为产生显著影响。文章提出构建多元化协同发展机制、加强自存储资源质量控制、建立政策保障机制与版权管理机制等发展策略。  相似文献   

科研人员流动中的性别差异研究     

张宁  赵镇岳  李江 《图书情报知识》2020,(2):24-31

[目的/意义]科研人员已成为知识经济时代重要的人才要素,其在全球范围内的流动关乎各国人才战略。分析科研人员流动的性别差异,有助于更好地了解流动模式,同时有利于国家人才引进机制的完善。[研究设计/方法]在分析流动频次、回流倾向、流动时期选择的性别差异基础上,提出三个研究假设,根据假设提取并分析了ORCID数据库中截止2017年底的有跨国流动经历的26,315位科研人员简历。[结论/发现]①科研人员在流动频次上具有显著的性别差异,女性科研人员的流动频次少于男性;当流动次数增加时,对应人员比例降低;②在回流倾向上,女性与男性并无显著差异,英国的男性和西班牙的女性最倾向于回流;③科研人员在流动时期的选择上无显著的性别差异,男女均在职业生涯早期流动更多。[创新/价值]揭示了男女科研人员在流动中的不同倾向,为进一步探讨不同背景和条件下的差异现象及本质并寻求解决方法奠定了基础。  相似文献   

论教育史学的想象力     

王晓慧 《教育学术月刊》2011,(9):11-13,34

教育史学的想象力是一种教育史研究者所应具备的心智品质,它帮助处于当代教育场域中的研究者带着现实教育问题回到过去,并在理解过去教育的基础上研究与重构教育史,从而厘清与引领当代的教育改革。教育史学的想象力不仅能够帮助我们完成知识生产,而且能使教育史研究立足当下、重塑过往与走向实践。  相似文献   

2000-2010年国内期刊中的客家研究论文分析     

陈瑜林 《嘉应学院学报》2011,29(9):12-16

新世纪以来,随着客家研究理论和方法的创新,客家研究取得了巨大的发展。期刊论文是科研成果的主要呈现方式之一,通过论文年度发表数量、论文的期刊分布、作者分布、作者单位分布、高频关键词、文献被引次数6个方面对2000-2010年客家研究论文进行分析,可以了解目前客家研究的状况:总体发展势头良好、建立了较好的科研成果发表平台、拥有了一批高素质学者队伍、形成了一些较好的学术团队、研究内容丰富、科研成果学术价值还需进一步提升。  相似文献   

Activating the curriculum: a socio-ecological action research frame for health and physical education     

Justen O'Connor  Laura Alfrey 《Sport, Education and Society》2015,20(6):691-709

The health and physical education (HPE) profession needs to find alternatives to its individualistic and performative focus if it is to remain relevant and meaningful for all learners. This paper presents a way of framing HPE that helps to shift the focus from the individual as autonomous decision-maker, and goes beyond sport and fitness testing as the main contexts for learning. To do this we present the socio-ecological action research (SEAR) frame for unit development that was co-created and enacted over a six-month period involving dialogue between teachers, students, parents, researchers and community. This paper presents findings from semi-structured interviews, student artefacts and field notes collected as one component of a broader three-phase study which spanned three years. The data describe how generalist primary teachers (n=4) from a small Victorian community and their students (aged 8–10 years) tackled a unit of work that positioned centrally the everyday physical experiences of active school travel (AST). Teachers supported students in exploring barriers to their AST, and developing strategies that would counteract some of the negative perceptions that had limited their AST in the past. The findings suggest that the unit of work evolved from an exploration of AST into a much broader exploration of the whole community. This paper does not provide evidence for an alternative way to view HPE, rather it represents an embryonic exploration of how a SEAR frame might support teachers in applying inquiry-based pedagogies that extend beyond the individual as autonomous decision-maker, and promote opportunities for exploration and understanding of environmental, social and personal factors that influence our health and everyday physically active lives. Despite students being positioned as central actors within the SEAR frame, obtaining genuine student voice throughout the process proved challenging.  相似文献   

制度作用下大学科研人员产学合作模式选择的扎根研究     

张慧颖  连晓庆 《科学学与科学技术管理》2015,(3):163-171

通过对大学科研人员的深入访谈,运用扎根理论的研究方法,探索性地构建了对大学科研人员产学合作模式选择产生影响的直接制度和间接制度;研究发现,直接制度在大学科研人员的产学活动中发挥的效应为零,与直接制度相比,间接制度对大学科研人员产学活动的影响更为明显。结果表明政策制定者需要进一步疏通政策的传导机制,强化政策的执行力,进而提高大学科研人员产学合作的积极性。  相似文献