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This thoroughly updated introduction covers the major issues involved in designing and conducting original research relevant to the fields of library and information science.• Library and information science examples to explain research methodologies and techniques• Explanations and examples of sampling procedures • A table for determining sample sizes and a random number table• Notes at the end of each chapter, plus a list of more than 400 research-related references at the end of the book
Series: Library and Information Science Text (Paperback)
Paperback: 370 pages
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited; 5 edition (September 17, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1591588650
ISBN-13: 978-1591588658
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.9 x 9.9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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There are two things that I absolutely despise: Books that are deliberately written with the most complicated words and explanations that they can find at the cost of clarity and readability, and books that go out of their way to dumb down material to the point where important details are omitted entirely.If you're wondering where this book falls, it's under the category of "overly complicated". I do understand that this is written for students at higher levels of education and I do understand that some of the more complicated concepts will be difficult or near impossible to really explain without using complicated words and explanations. It's just that at times I got the impression that this book was more concerned with sounding really, really smart and cool than it was trying to describe something in simpler, more concise details and then applying it in real world contexts. This book does do this on occasion, but for every passage where something felt nicely written there were about five to ten other passages that just felt like they could have been explained far better. This thing reads like stereo instructions, if I can make a Beetlejuice reference. It's just so dry that it doesn't hold reader attention like it could have if it'd been written in a bit more user-friendly manner.That's not to say that this book doesn't have good and useful information. It does and for the most part everything is laid out well. You'll likely have to re-read passages several times and very heavily supplement everything you read with various searches and websites that explain the same information in a more entertaining and clear manner, but this does have pretty much everything you will need to know.
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