Description
About the Author
Alan Bailin is Associate Professor of Library Services, Hofstra University. He has a PhD in English (McGill University, 1983) and an MLS (Queens College, City University of New York, 2001). He has been associate editor for Computers and the Humanities and a reviewer for both the National Science Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Among his many publications are "Online Tutorials, Narratives and Scripts" (Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2007), "The Evolution of Academic Libraries: The Networked Environment" (Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2005), "The Linguistic Assumptions Underlying Readability Formulae" (Journal of Language and Communication, 2001), and a book entitled Metaphor and the Logic of Language Use (Legas, 1998). Ann Grafstein is Associate Professor of Library Services, Hofstra University. She has a Ph.D. in linguistics (McGill University, 1984) and an MLIS (University of Western Ontario, 1989). Her publications include "Information Literacy and Technology: An Examination of Some Issues" (portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007), "The Evolution of Academic Libraries: The Networked Environment" (Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2005), A Discipline-Based Approach to Information Literacy" (Journal of Academic Librarianship 2002), and "The Linguistic Assumptions Underlying Readability Formulae" (Journal of Language and Communication, 2001). She received the prestigious Association of College and Research Libraries Instruction Section Publication Award for "A Discipline-Based Approach to Information Literacy" in 2004.
Reviews
"This is an excellent introduction to assessing and evaluating research and unlike any book currently available." --Journal of Academic Librarianship"An engaging and thoroughly useful book... it addresses everything outlined in the introduction, and offers intuitive and uncomplicated methods of approach in its examination of modern research methods." --Australian Academic and Research Libraries
Book Information
ISBN 9781843345435
Author Alan Bailin
Format Paperback
Page Count 132
Imprint Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
Publisher Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Weight(grams) 250g