...Jessica Lange; Andrea Miller-Nesbitt; Sarah Severson Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of an electronic noise-monitoring device (NoiseSign) at reducing noise levels in quiet study areas in an academic library. Design/methodology/approach – Surveys and decibel...

... and the survey results were recorded. Feedback forms were also used to gauge a sense of the students' experiences with this form of active learning. Findings This study found that web‐based polling in a library instruction classroom benefits both students and instructors. The students enjoy these sessions...

...William Denton; Sarah J. Coysh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of an academic library's implementation of a discovery layer (VuFind 1.0 RC1) as a next‐generation catalogue, based on usability testing and an online survey. Design/methodology/approach Usability tests...

...; customer (library) responses; (library automation) vendor responses, including a review of recent market surveys, and an attempted meta‐analysis of some of those surveys; and an attempt to redefine the ILS. Findings The findings suggest the market “trajectory” is towards products other than...

... describes the methodical approach, and provides an overview of the results gained by several user surveys. Design/methodology/approach The methodical approach includes the use of adaptive conjoint analysis (ACA) and choice‐based conjoint analysis (CBC). Findings Conjoint analysis is an appropriate...

.../methodology/approach This online survey consisted of 22 multiple choice questions that all Monmouth University students and employees were invited by e‐mail to answer. Findings The vast majority of responses came from students, and most of them were ready for wireless access in the library and across...

...Heting Chu A questionnaire survey was distributed among 27 students at a library and information science school in the USA to find out what users and potential users think about e‐books in this transition period, when the US economy has experienced downtime, and the e‐book world cannot see...

..., but are they accessible? An e‐mail survey was used to examine accessibility of Web‐based abstracting and indexing services from product providers’ perspectives. Company representatives were asked to address overall product accessibility, company compliance with Section 508 Standards, and product usability for persons...

... accessibility via the Web based on a simple random sample of 189 entries coded as “public library type” in the American Library Directory. An e‐mail survey to the heads of public libraries in Winter 2002 augmented the data we collected from an examination of Web sites of the sampled libraries. The public...

...Arthur Hendricks; Jian Wang The floppy disk drive is expected to become obsolete soon. However, this issue has been little addressed in library professional journals. This article reports the results of a Web‐based survey that aimed at ascertaining what plans, if any, librarians have for dealing...

...Joseph Janes This column continues a series on topics in research methodology, statistics and data analysis techniques for the library and information sciences. It discusses surveys, how to write good survey questions, questionnaire design and construction, including the order of questions...

...Marian Shemberg; Cheryl Grossman In late 1997/early 1998, we conducted a survey dealing with library provision of electronic journals and other electronic resources. We compared the responses from a census of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to a sample of non‐ARL Master’s, Doctoral...

...Jason Vaughan In an effort to better speculate whether a certain set of factors plays a role in information professionals’ choice of Internet search tools, this article describes a survey conducted by the author of MSLS/MSIS graduate students and professional librarians at the University of North...