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Library Trends, 46(4), Spring 1998 (with Volume 46 index)
"Qualitative Research"
Edited by Gillian M. McCombs and Theresa M. Maylone
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**From  the introduction of  46(4) by Theresa M. Maylone:
Qualitative research, in the way that the articles in this issue of
Library Trends discuss it and provide examples of its practice, is about
"ways of seeing."   The goal of research, whatever its methodology, is
understanding gained through a process of discovery. What is expressed in
qualitative research is a process of discovery that asserts particular
assumptions of how knowledge is perceived and acquired--a particular
epistemology--particularly knowledge of complex human social interactions. 

This collection of articles grew out of Library Research Seminar I, a
conference held in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1996. The conference was
unique in that it required presentations to demonstrate, in the supportive
context of research, the confluence of academicians and practitioners.
And the conference was wonderful because it succeeded so well in
demonstrating the value and power of research for all areas of the
profession.  Because there was no published proceeding of the conference,
we sought an outlet for publication.  Original papers were also added to
broaden the library-related context to include such themes as the teaching
of qualitative research and a view of qualitative research from the
perspective of journal editors. The articles represent many research
traditions but, because it is our particular interest, the large number of
presentations employing a qualitative methodology or issuing from a
naturalistic approach struck us as a significant indicator of the growing
prevalence of qualitative research in the library-related contexts of the
seminar. 

In assembling the articles for this issue of Library Trends, the
assumption was that one of the key responsibilities of the library
profession is to facilitate the process of perceiving and acquiring
knowledge in an environment of complex human social interaction. Academics
and practitioners share the responsibility in the complementary roles that
they play in professional practice.  They also share the responsibility
for research, particularly research that risks accepted norms by
informingand being informed byresearch methods and traditions that cross
the boundaries of narrowly defined academic disciplines.

Articles and authors in this issue include:
**  Introduction, Theresa M. Maylone
**  Qualitative Research Literature: A Bibliographic Essay, Jim Horn
**  Flaubert, Foucault, and the Bibliotheque Fantastique:  Toward a
Postmodern Epistemology for Library Science, Gary P. Radford
**  Transformational Discourse: Idealogies of Organizational Change in
the Academic Library and Information Science Literature, Mark Tyler Day
**  Quantity with Quality?  Teaching Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
in an LIS Master's Program, Peter Liebscher
**  The Keys to the Kingdom have been Distributed: An Organizational
Analysis of an Academic Computing Center, Gillian  M. McCombs
**  Approach or Avoidance? The Role of Nonverbal Communication in the
Academic Library User's Decision to Initiate a  Reference Encounter, Marie
L. Radford
**  Scholar's Playground or Wisdom's Temple? Competing Metaphors in a
Library Electronic Text Center, Moira Smith and  Paul Yachnes
**  Small World Lives: Implications for the Public Library, Victoria EM
Pendleton and Elfreda A. Chatman
**  Qualitative Research and the Editorial Tradition: A Mixed Metaphor,
Danny A. Wallace and Connie Van Fleet
**  Index to Volume 46


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