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Parent,Student, and Teacher Perceptions of Parental Involvement

Parental involvement is a key predictor of a student's academic success. However, little research has explored whether parent, student, and teacher perceptions are similar regarding what constitutes parental involvement and the communication activities it entails. The present study examines parent, student, and teacher perceptions of parental involvement and communication. While agreement exists on the importance of monitoring a child's academic performance and constructive teacher-parent communication, disagreement on the role of discipline and the use of extracurricular programs exist. Two discourses surrounding parental involvement are articulated--information transmission and partnership--and the implications of these discourses for developing parental involvement interventions are examined.     

How Are We the Same or Different: Information Needs and Barriers of Domestic and International Students

The study sought to (1) investigate whether international students differ from domestic students in their information needs and barriers encountered, and (2) test the relative importance of students' domestic/international status against their gender and level of study. A survey was used to collect data from international and domestic undergraduate and graduate students in a US public university. The study collected 1259 responses. Regression analysis was used for analyzing the data. International and domestic students were found to be similar in their top-ranked needs (e.g., career information) and barriers (e.g., irrelevant and non-credible information). Compared to their gender and level of study, students' domestic/international status resulted in fewer significant differences in their needs and barriers. However, for the areas where domestic/international status was significant, its effect size was often prominent. Differences between domestic and international students are more notable in the barriers than in the information needs. Based on the findings, six propositions were developed. The implications for research and practice are discussed.     

中国妇女信息需求研究

妇女占中国人口的一半。在人类已进入信息社会的今天，研究并满足妇女的信息需求应为中国图书馆工作者的一项光荣使命。本文从时代背景、现实状况、发展目标等方面对当前中国妇女的信息需求问题进行了全方位的透视，分析了妇女信息需求的特征，并指出为满足这些需求我们应该如何行动。     

Full Text Document Delivery: A Study Understanding User Perceptions and Needs

ABSTRACT

A long and divisive debate ensued on the ILL-L list-server concerning the requirement that some institutions place on the management of interlibrary loan: specifically that the manager of ILL be a librarian holding a Master's Degree in Library Science. This article attempts to show, using published studies and references, why this requirement may be outmoded in the modern academic library. While it is expected that the debate will not be settled or even dampened by this publication, it is hoped that some of the evidence presented may at least cause some to consider the issue in terms that are not absolute.     

Post-Master's Educational Needs of Information Professionals

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the post-master's educational needs and interests of information professionals. The population for the study consisted of members of the library associations of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Ontario, Canada. About 78 percent of the respondents held a master's degree in library science, 22 percent a master's degree in another discipline, almost 1 percent was enrolled in a doctoral program, 1 percent possessed a doctorate, and 16 percent had some other degree. Given the choice of an LIS only doctoral program or one combined with the field of business administration or computer science, the participants expressed a slight preference for the LIS only program. Of the other fields suggested by participants, education and public administration were the most popular. Participants also expressed a strong preference for non-traditional modes of instruction.     

Information Needs of Special Populations:

The interactive presentation of information has s w i a l utility for individuals with coative disorders who may experience difficullty processing information from books. This article reports on a use of cbmputer-Sded instruction (CAI) and multimedia iechnology to meet the information needs of a special population-people who have severe and persistent mental illnesses. LSCA Title I monies funded this alternative approach lo traditional :institutional library services to explore the romise held by CAI for helping thought-disordered patrons intern aP ize information, in this case on consumer health and vocational topics. Described here are this population's special needs, the rationale for services to be tailored accordingly, uses of computers in psychiatric rehabilitation, collection development and usage, and reaction to the project.     

论用户信息需求的表达

用户的信息需求具有主观性和认识性,存在着客观状态、认识状态和表达状态.用户信息需求的表达取决于用户的认知能力、表达能力、用户对服务系统的信任度和用户表达需求的途径、手段及环境.用户信息需求的表达和接收可以分解为三个要素:语用主体即用户和服务人员、语境和语用主体所使用的话语实体.     

Regional Campus Learning Commons: Assessing to Meet Student Needs

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At the University of Connecticut, Learning Commons were created at each of the five regional campuses as was reported in the Journal of Library Administration (Dryden & Roseman, 2010). This article will discuss the further evolution of the commons at each campus, based on a variety of assessment methods that were undertaken. These included technology surveys, online space assessment surveys, focus groups, marketing surveys, and virtual focus groups. This article shares assessment models which may be useful for the evaluation of learning commons at other academic libraries.     

关于信息需求动机的“溯源”研究

文章以现有的研究为基础,将信息需求动机的溯源划分为心理导向溯源、任务导向溯源和信息素养导向溯源三个方面,同时进一步细分了各“溯源”的维度,据此对信息需求动机的“溯源”问题进行了深入探讨.     

专利申请中的信息需求与信息保障

分析了专利申请中的几种信息需求，阐述了专利申请中的社会信息保障系统。     

Meeting Changing Information Needs of Illinois Firefighters

Abstract

The Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) Library, established in 1990 to support instructional teaching and research, continued to support the academic programs in the Institute while initiating and developing its Outreach Program in 1998. This program provides library and information services to Illinois fire departments and firefighters throughout the state. Since establishing the Outreach Program, the IFSI Library has accumulated more than 7,000 entries in a “Reference Request Database.”

This paper reports and analyzes the data, including request methods, delivery methods, types of requests, and types of resources. Trends indicate a change over time in request and delivery methods. Different regions of the state and different user groups have begun to use the library. The research can serve as a model for designing, developing and evaluating outreach reference service in a special or small library dedicated to meeting the information needs of remote library users.     

Meeting the Information Needs of Nursing Students

Reference librarians in large academic medical center libraries deal with a variety of user groups with markedly different needs and skills. Undergraduate nursing students in particular have unique requirements. To help these students effectively with a small reference staff, librarians at the Indiana University School of Medicine Library developed a library instruction module for use in an introductory nursing research class. This article describes the module and the particular needs of the nursing students.     

Information Needs of Minority Women and Serial Resources:

The information needs of minority women have received little attention. Fluency with the English language is a predictor of successful assimilation into mainstream American society. All ethnic groups share the need for unbiased educational materials, positive career role models for girls and young women, and enlightened career counseling. Lack of support from the publishing industry restricts the availability of writings by minority women. A wide variety of research opportunities exist in the field of ethnic women's studies due to past neglect. Academic, public, and school media libraries need to reexamine their role in the educational process of minority girls and women to help reverse trends of underemployment and cultural deprivation.     

System Performance and Natural Language Expression of Information Needs

Consider information retrieval systems that respond to a query (a natural language statement of a topic, an information need) with an ordered list of 1000 documents from the document collection. From the responses to queries that all express the same topic, one can discern how the words associated with a topic result in particular system behavior. From what is discerned from different topics, one can hypothesize abstract topic factors that influence system performance. An example of such a factor is the specificity of the topic's primary key word. This paper shows that statements about the effect of abstract topic factors on system performance can be supported empirically. A combination of statistical methods is applied to system responses from NIST's Text REtrieval Conference. We analyze each topic using a measure of irrelevant-document exclusion computed for each response and a measure of dissimilarity between relevant-document return orders computed for each pair of responses. We formulate topic factors through graphical comparison of measurements for different topics. Finally, we propose for each topic a four-dimensional summarization that we use to select topic comparisons likely to depict topic factors clearly.     

基于农民信息需求的图书馆信息服务研究

在新农村建设过程中,缩小城乡之间的信息鸿沟是一项艰巨的任务。农民的信息需求呈现就近性、多样性和实用性等主要特征,信息需求受多种因素制约。本文在分析农民信息需求表现特征和现实特征的基础上,论述了图书馆对农民实行信息服务应该采取切实可行的策略。     

Graduate Student Space and Service Needs: A Recommendation for a Cross-campus Solution

Focus group methodology was used to investigate graduate students' cross-campus technology, space and service needs. Although the library provides valued services and spaces, graduate students need enhanced and more equitable support for their roles as teachers and scholars. Librarians can provide leadership and act as advocates for graduate student needs in partnership with other campus stakeholders.     

公共图书馆用户信息需求浅析

公共图书馆的用户比其他类型的图书馆用户更多更有普遍性。文章对公共图书馆用户的信息需求的特点进行了描述,分析了原因,并提出了对策。     

Use and Perceptions of E-books by Academic Staff in Further Education

This article reports on a study of the awareness, perceptions and use of e-books by academic staff in Further Education (FE) colleges throughout Northern Ireland (NI). It is the first comprehensive study of e-book use by FE faculty in NI and fills a significant gap in the research literature on e-books in education, which has tended to focus on Higher Education and the university setting. Data was collected through an online survey which was distributed to FE faculty across NI. The findings show that although FE academic staff are receptive to e-books and welcome them as a resource, poor reading experience and lack of awareness of relevant titles have had an impact. In particular, the research found that 40% of academic staff, in post less than five years, had not used e-books. Greater availability of titles, promotion, and better integration within teaching and learning emerge as key requisites for effective service delivery and enhancement of e-books within FE, as does the need for better targeted instruction and training aimed at academic staff. Understanding patrons' views, awareness, needs, habits and expectations in relation to e-books is crucial to help direct collection content while budgets remain tight and physical space limited.