Month: April 2009

New (or Old?) Paradigm Spurs ‘Fundamental Shift’ in Library Advocacy

Everything Old is New Again is the title of a 1999 article in American Libraries by Douglas Raber, author of the excellent and eye-opening book, Librarianship and Legitimacy: The Ideology of the Public Library Inquiry.  The article suggests that the Inquiry, a comprehensive assessment of public librarianship initiated by ALA in the late 1940’s, continues… Read More New (or Old?) Paradigm Spurs ‘Fundamental Shift’ in Library Advocacy

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Poor WebJunction Survey Design Makes Findings Pretty Much Useless

This week I noticed that WebJunction is conducting a survey entitled “Technology Competencies Evaluation.”  I think this must be a sequel to a survey I saw there last month about “management core competencies.”  While the surveys are probably marketing research for WebJunction’s e-learning product line, the researchers say they want to use the data to “establish… Read More Poor WebJunction Survey Design Makes Findings Pretty Much Useless

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