Download or read book New Trends in Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries written by Anthi Katsirikou and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after - almost / F. Wilfrid Lancaster -- The new challenges of the statistics : case UEF / Markku Laitinen and Aino Taskinen -- Fractal analysis of knowledge organization in digital library / Veslava Osinka -- User's perception and satisfaction with reference services in university libraries of Punjab : a survey / Shafiq Ur Rehman, Farzana Shafique and Khalid Mahmood -- User centred libraries and brand name : the case of Greek public libraries / Anthi Katsirikou and Ageliki Oikonomou -- View from a virtual reference desk / Lynne Rudasill -- Using data to make quick decisions about a new merged service desk : a case study / Elizabeth Cooper -- Moving from behind the desk and into the flow : assessing the impact of research support activities / JoAnn Jacoby -- One librarian at a time : group assessment via self assessment / Cynthia Johnson and Carol Ann Hughes -- Access and use of European information : a comparative analysis / Ana Lucia Terra -- Evaluation of information services in the library : areas identified by graduate students / Naresh Kumar Agarwal -- How to teach library management / Angela Repanovici -- Using statistics - quality management in the library / Ane Landoy -- Greek academic repositories : policies for making available scientific and cultural content / Manolis Koukourakis -- Library network support services : quantitative and qualitative measures for assessing the impact of information literacy initiatives on learners / Jerald Cavanagh and Padraig Kirby -- Electronic academic libraries services valuation : a case study of the Portuguese electronic scientific information consortium b-on / Luiza Baptista Melo and Cesaltina Pires -- The use of marketing research methods for the evaluation of information literacy services / Dionysis Kokkinos, Eleni Papadatou and Nina Sisamaki -- Development of management methods in Polish libraries and information centres. Hitherto existing solutions, new trends and directions of research / Maja Wojciechowska -- The use of phenomenographic approach to investigate students' conceptions of the use of web 2.0 tools / Alice Adejoke Bamigbola -- Application of preservation metadata for long-term accessibility of digital objects / Yibeltal Tafere Bayih -- Exploring user's information behavior in social networks / Juan Daniel Machin Mastromatteo