... Chinese User studies Electronic books Qualitative methods Because the rapid development of network and mobile digital technology has greatly diversified the publishing industry, reading is no longer limited to print media. Now that the gap has been bridged between traditional books...

... – The paper draws upon social network and qualitative methods, within three public libraries located in Belgium. Findings – The findings suggest that as the most central actors, social media experts in a library play a significant role in either supporting or constraining the distribution of information...

... Qualitative methods Semi-structured interview Knowledge sharing China Structured Interviews are based on a predesigned and identical set of questions (Saunders et al., 2007). This technique has limited flexibility and no room for improvisation (Myers and Newman, 2007). Semi-structured...

... research” (Bradley, 1993 , p. 436) seems to be an ongoing point of debate in LIS, which is heightened by the levels of evidence used in EBL which privilege particular (quantitative) methods over other (qualitative) methods (see, for example, Eldredge, 2004 , p. 43). Advocates and practitioners of EBL must...