Conference Session 95

Data collection in the service of libraries

Library Theory and Research Section with Statistics and Evaluation

Congress track 3: Users driving access and services.

15 August 2011 09:30 - 12:45 | Room: 104

• Speaker introduction and introduction of evidence-based librarianship
  LYNN SILIPIGNI CONNAWAY (OCLC Research, Dublin, OH, USA)
• Researching data sets to develop State Library standards
  LESLEY FARMER (Librarianship Program, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA)
• Attaining information literacy: evaluating a theory and research based educational intervention
  MELISSA GROSS and DON LATHAM (School of Library and Information Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA)
• Mapping the education of rural librarians' technology literacy and management training: use of mixed data collection methods in the ITRL program
  BHARAT MEHRA, KIMBERLY BLACK, VANDANA SINGH and JENNA NOLT (School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA)
• 65+: Engaging underserved patrons - a success story
  JASMINA NINKOV and VESNA VUKSAN (Belgrade City Library, Belgrade, Serbia)
• Is mobile really necessary? The usability of mobile databases
  TIFFINI A. TRAVIS (University Library, California State University, Long Beach, California, USA) and AARON TAY (National University of Singapore Libraries, Singapore)
• Session summary and conclusions about evidence-based librarianship
  MICHAEL SEADLE (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)