{"id":541,"date":"2022-05-20T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/social-informatics\/?p=541"},"modified":"2022-05-23T08:24:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T08:24:54","slug":"new-publication-on-research-methods-in-library-and-information-science-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/social-informatics\/2022\/05\/new-publication-on-research-methods-in-library-and-information-science-research\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication on research methods in Library and Information Science research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffield.ac.uk\/is\/people\/academic\/leo-appleton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr Leo Appleton<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/people\/hazel-hall\">Professor Hazel Hall<\/a> have recently published one of the two final outputs from Leo&#8217;s PhD, completed within the Centre for Social Informatics in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The paper is entitled &#8216;Using a multi-locational, longitudinal focus group method to conduct qualitative research into the role of public libraries&#8217; and is available on pages 83-92 of the current issue of<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qqml.net\/index.php\/qqml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries<\/a><\/em> (11(1)). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The authors present the details of the multi-location longitudinal focus group method deployed in Leo&#8217;s doctoral study on public libraries as a facet of the information society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For further information about the paper, please see the full text of the paper at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qqml-journal.net\/index.php\/qqml\/article\/view\/751\/668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.qqml-journal.net\/index.php\/qqml\/article\/view\/751\/668<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To find out more about Leo, please see his profile on the University Sheffield web pages at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffield.ac.uk\/is\/people\/academic\/leo-appleton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.sheffield.ac.uk\/is\/people\/academic\/leo-appleton<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Dr Leo Appleton and Professor Hazel Hall have recently published one of the two final outputs from Leo&#8217;s PhD, completed within the Centre for Social <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/social-informatics\/2022\/05\/new-publication-on-research-methods-in-library-and-information-science-research\/\" title=\"New publication on research methods in Library and Information Science research\">[more 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