I did some correlation between specific sets of tools and type of cataloging and type of library, but not with all sets. It's towards the end of the article. I also conducted on-site interviews with participants, but haven't yet incorporated that into the other article I hope to produce when time permits. Also tried to point out where possible the percentage of those who skipped questions. The tables in the article are only a slice of the total number of tables the questionnaire produced as well as tables resulting from different correlations I could make just using the Excel pivot table function. It is very basic statistical analysis as the design of the questionnaire and the ending format of the results made it impossible to use put it into something like SPSS. A hard lesson in survey design.
Just to maybe steer this thread back to the direction of library catalogs---it would be great to have all tools available electronically in one place, perferably within a cataloging module. Pipe dream, I know, but just having to keep up with knowing what kinds of tools are available is a challenge, let alone maintaining a good knowledge of how to use it. One person commented "we are amazed at the resources out there!" Another person who came to a small focus group session remarked "I don't have a clue about what I don't know."
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Shawne D. Miksa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Library and Information Sciences
College of Information
University of North Texas
email: Shawne.Miksa_at_unt.edu
http://courses.unt.edu/smiksa/index.htm
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Simon Spero [ses_at_UNC.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:02 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] The Dewey Dilemma
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Miksa, Shawne <SMiksa_at_unt.edu> wrote:
> Non-use of tools and resources is very closely tied to amount of
> outsourcing and/or copy cataloging and number of hours per week devoted to
> semi- or original cataloging.
>
Were these correlations published in the full report? Where there any other
significant effects/interactions?Did you find any relationship between
skipping the copy-cataloging and outsourcing questions and the reported
position?
Thanks
Simon
Received on Thu Nov 12 2009 - 18:15:28 EST