I. Readings from the class schedule and assignments

CD means that a document is in the Course Documents section in Blackboard.

Babbie, Earl. (2007). The practice of social research (11th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Bartz, Albert E. (1988). Basic statistical concepts (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan.

Bazerman, Charles. (1987). Codifying the social scientific style: The APA Publication Manual as a behaviorist rhetoric. In John S. Nelson, Allan Megill, & Donald N. McCloskey (Eds.), The rhetoric of the human sciences: Language and argument in scholarship and public affairs (pp. 125-144). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin. CD

Berg, Bruce L. (1998). Writing research papers: Sorting the noodles from the soup. In Qualitative research methods for the social sciences (pp. 253-272). Boston: Allyn and Bacon. CD

Best, Joel. (2001a). Thinking about social statistics: The critical approach. In Damned lies and statistics: Untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists (pp. 160-171). Berkeley, CA: University of California. CD

Bookstein, Abraham. (1985). Questionnaire research in a library setting. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 11(1), 24-28. Also available at http://weblinks3.epnet.com/ authhjafdetail.asp? tb=1&_ua=bo+B%5F+shn+1+db+aphjnh+bt+ID++%22ALN%22+D5C7& _ug=sid+845F53BC%2D7E93%2D4BD8%2DAC61%2D7BC7839459CF%40sessionmgr2+dbs+aph+cp+1+5255& _us=dstb+ES+sm+ES+mdbs+aph+69C8& _uh=btn+N+6C9C& _uso=st%5B0+%2DID++ALN+tg%5B0+%2D+db%5B0+%2Daph+hd+False+op%5B0+%2D+mdb%5B0+%2Dimh+77AA&vw=&st= Journal+of+Academic+Librarianship&rn=1&vm=open&ths=0&vs=22#22 CD

Busha, Charles H., & Harter, Stephen P. (1980). Research methods in librarianship: Techniques and interpretation. New York: Academic Press.

Cooper, Harris M. (1984). The integrative research review: A systematic approach. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Creswell, John W. (2003). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Cronin, Blaise. (1992). When is a problem a research problem? In Leigh Stewart Estabrook (Ed.), Applying research to practice: How to use data collection and research to improve library management decision making (pp. 117-132). Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. CD

Dervin, Brenda. (1977). Useful theory for librarianship: Communication, not information. Drexel Library Quarterly, 13(3), 16-32. CD

Ellsworth, Blanche. (1990). English simplified (6th ed.). New York: Harper & Row.

Gorman, G.E., & Clayton, Peter. (1997). Writing qualitative research reports. In Qualitative research for the information professional: A practical handbook (pp. 222-239). London: Library Association. CD

Harris, Michael H. (1986). The dialectic of defeat: Antimonies in research in library and information science. In Donald G. Davis & Phyllis Dain (Eds.), History of library and information science education [Special issue] (pp. 515-531). Library Trends, 34(3). CD

Hernon, Peter. (1991b). Access to the research literature of library and information science. In Statistics: A component of the research process (pp. 31-38). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. CD

Katzer, Jeffrey, Cook, Kenneth H., & Crouch, Wayne W. (1998). Evaluating information: A guide for users of social science research (4th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Krueger, Richard A. (1994a). Preface. In Focus groups: A practical guide for applied research (2nd ed., vii-xi). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. CD

Krueger, Richard A. (1994b). Groups. In Focus groups: A practical guide for applied research (2nd ed., pp. 5-15). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. CD

Krueger, Richard A. (1994c). Focus Groups. In Focus groups: A practical guide for applied research (2nd ed., pp. 16-38). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. CD

Krueger, Richard A. (1994d). Postscript. In Focus groups: A practical guide for applied research (2nd ed., pp. 238-239). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. CD

Losee, Robert M., & Worley, Karen A. (1993). Research and evaluation for information professionals. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

McClure, Charles R. (1991). Communicating applied library/information science research to decision makers: Some methodological considerations. In Charles R. McClure and Peter Hernon (Eds.), Library and information science research: Perspectives and strategies for improvement (pp. 253-266). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. CD

Milgram, Stanley. (1963). A behavioral study of obedience. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 67(4), 371-378. CD

Neuman, W. Lawrence. (2007). Basics of social research: Qualitative and quantitative approaches (2^nd ed.). Boston: Pearson.

Olson, David R. (1996). The world on paper: The conceptual and cognitive implications of writing and reading. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University.

Plato. (1945). The allegory of the cave. The Republic of Plato (F.M. Cornford, Trans.) (pp. 227-235). New York: Oxford Press. CD

Rice-Lively, Mary Lynn. (1997a). Analyzing qualitative data in information organizations. In G.E. Gorman & Peter Clayton, Qualitative research for the information professional: A practical handbook (pp. 198-221). London: Library Association. CD

Rice-Lively, Mary Lynn. (1997b). Recording fieldwork data in information organizations In G.E. Gorman & Peter Clayton, Qualitative research for the information professional: A practical handbook (pp. 177-197). London: Library Association. CD

Robbins, Jane B. (1992). Affecting librarianship in action: The dissemination and communication of research findings. In Leigh Stewart Estabrook (Ed.), Applying research to practice: How to use data collection and research to improve library management decision making (pp. 78-88). Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. CD

Roscoe, John T. (1975). Percentile ranks. In Fundamental research statistics for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed., pp. 34-38). New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. CD

Rowntree, Derek. (1981). Statistics without tears: A primer for non-mathematicians. New York: Scribner.

Spatz, Chris. (2008). Basic statistics: Tales of distributions (9th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.

Stenstrom, Patricia E. (1994). Library literature. In Wayne A. Wiegand & Donald G. Davis (Eds.), Encyclopedia of library history (pp. 368-373). New York: Garland.

Stieve, Thomas, & Schoen, David. (2006). Undergraduate students' book selection: A study of factors in the decision-making process. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 32(6), 599-608. Also available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_cdi=6556&_pubType=J&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=ee9b812a8445161df9f7b34bfe1905c2&jchunk=32#32

Trochim & Donnelly, William K., & Donnelly, James P. (2007). The research methods knowledge base (3^rd ed.). Mason, OH: Thomson. See http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/

Vaughn, Liwen. (2001). Statistical methods for the information professional: A practically painless approach to understanding, using, and interpreting statistics. Medford, NJ: Information Today.

II. Research and research methods in information studies

Advances in computers. (1960-present). New York: Academic Press.

Advances in information systems. (1969-present). New York: Plenum Press.

Advances in librarianship. (1970-present). New York: Academic Press.

Annual review of information science and technology. (1966-present). Medford, NJ: Learned Information.

Bates, Marcia. (1999). The invisible substrate of information science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(12), 1043-1050.

Biggs, Mary. (1991). The role of research in the development of a profession or a discipline. In Charles R. McClure and Peter Hernon (Eds.), Library and information science research: Perspectives and strategies for improvement (pp. 72-84). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Borgman, Christine L. (Ed.). (1990). Scholarly communication and bibliometrics. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Borgman, Christine, & Furner, Jonathan. (2002). Scholarly communication and bibliometrics. In Blaise Cronin (Ed.), Annual review of information science and technology (vol. 36, pp. 3-72). Medford, NJ: Information Today.

Bowker, Geoffrey, & Star, Susan Leigh. (1998). Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Boyce, Bert R., Meadow, Charles T., & Kraft, Donald H. (1994). Measurement in information science. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Encyclopedia of library and information science. (1968-2003). Allen Kent & Harold Lancour (Eds.). (1^st ed.). (Vols. 1-73). New York: Marcel Dekker.

Encyclopedia of library and information science. (2003). Miriam Drake (Ed.). (2^nd ed.). New York: Marcel Dekker.

Estabrook, Leigh Stewart. (Ed.). (1992). Applying research to practice: How to use data collection and research to improve library management decision making. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Glazier, Jack D., & Powell, Ronald R. (Eds.). (1992). Qualitative research in information management. Englewood, CA: Libraries Unlimited.

Gorman, G.E., & Clayton, Peter. (1997). Qualitative research for the information professional: A practical handbook. London: Library Association.

Haddow, Gaby, & Klobas, Jane E. (1994). Communication of research to practice in library and information science: Closing the gap. Library & Information Science Research, 26(1), 29-43.

Hafner, Arthur W. (1989). Descriptive statistical techniques for librarians. Chicago: American Library Association.

Harmon, E. Glynn. (1987). The interdisciplinary study of information: A review essay. The Journal of Library History, 22(2), 206-227.

Hernon, Peter. (1991a). The elusive nature of research in LIS. In Charles R. McClure and Peter Hernon (Eds.), Library and information science research: Perspectives and strategies for improvement (pp. 3-14). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Hernon, Peter. (2001). Components of the research process: Where do we need to focus attention? Journal of Academic Librarianship, 27(2), 81-89.

Hernon, Peter, & Schwartz, Candy. (2002). The word “research”: Having to live with a misunderstanding. Library and Information Science Research, 24(3), 207-208.

Hertzel, Dorothy H. (1987). History of the development of ideas in bibliometrics. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 42, 144-219.

Hoadley, Irene B. (1991). The role of practicing LIS professionals. In Charles R. McClure and Peter Hernon (Eds.), Library and information science research: Perspectives and strategies for improvement (pp. 179-188). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Koufogiannakis, Denise, & Crumley, Ellen. (2006). Research in librarianship: Issues to consider. Library Hi Tech, 24(3), 324-340.

McClure, Charles R., & Bishop, Ann. (1989). The status of research in library/information science: Guarded optimism. College & Research Libraries, 50(2), 127-143.

McClure, Charles R., & Hernon, Peter. (Eds.). (1991). Library and information science research: Perspectives and strategies for improvement. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

McKechnie, Lynne (E.F.), & Pettigrew, Karen E. (2002). Surveying the use of theory in library and information science research: A disciplinary perspective. Library Trends, 50(3), 406-417. Available at http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?db=aph&jn=%22LIT%22&scope=site

Mellon, Constance Ann. (1990). Naturalistic inquiry for library science: Methods and applications for research, evaluation, and teaching. New York: Greenwood Press.

Nicholas, David, & Ritchie, Maureen. (1978). Literature and bibliometrics. London: Linnet Books.

Pettigrew, Karen E., & McKechnie, Lynne (E.F.). (2001). The use of theory in information science research. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(1), 62-73.

Powell, Ronald R., & Connaway, Lynn Silipigni. (2004). Basic research methods for librarians (4^th ed.). Greenwich, CT: Ablex.

Powell, Ronald R., Baker, Lynda M., & Mika, Joseph J. (2002). Library and information science practitioners and research. Library and Information Science Research, 24(1), 49-72.

Tague-Sutcliffe, Jean. (1995). Measuring information: An information services perspective. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Van House, Nancy. (1991). Assessing the quantity, quality, and impact of LIS research. In Charles R. McClure and Peter Hernon (Eds.), Library and information science research: Perspectives and strategies for improvement (pp. 85-100). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Westbrook, Lynn. (1994). Qualitative research methods: A review of major stages, data analysis techniques, and quality controls. Library and Information Science Research, 16(3), 241-254.

III. Research methods

Babbie, Earl. (1990). Survey research methods (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.

Best, Joel. (2001b). Damned lies and statistics: Untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists. Berkeley, CA: University of California.

Creswell, John W. (1998). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five traditions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Denzin, Norman K., & Lincoln, Yvonna S. (Eds.). (2000). Handbook of qualitative research (2^nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Denzin, Norman K., & Lincoln, Yvonna S. (Eds.). (2005). Handbook of qualitative research (3^rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Freedman, David, Pisani, Robert, & Purves, Roger. (1980). Statistics. New York: W.W. Norton.

Hamel, Jacques. (1993). Case study methods. With Stéphane Dufour & Dominic Fortin (Maureen Nicholson, Trans.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Holsti, Ole R. (1969). Content analysis for the social sciences and humanities. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Human subjects [sic] policies and documents. (2007). Office of Sponsored Projects, The University of Texas at Austin. Available http://www.utexas.edu/research/rsc/humanresearch/

Institutional review board procedures manual for faculty, staff, and student researchers with human participants. (2008). Office of Research Support and Compliance, The University of Texas at Austin. Available http://www.utexas.edu/research/rsc/humanresearch/manual/

Kerlinger, Fred N. (1986). Foundations of behavioral research (3rd ed.). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Krueger, Joachim. (2001). Null hypothesis significance testing: On the survival of a flawed method. American Psychologist, 56(1), 16-26.

Lewis-Beck, Michael S., Bryman, Alan, & Liao, Tim Futing. (Eds.). (2004). The Sage encyclopedia of social science research methods (3 vols.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Lincoln, Yvonna, & Guba, Egon. (1985). Naturalistic inquiry. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Mertler, Craig A., & Vanatta, Rachel A. (2004). Advanced and multivariate statistical methods: Practical applications and interpretation. Los Angeles: Pryczak.

Miles, Matthew B., & Huberman, A. Michael. (1994). Qualitative data analysis: An expanded sourcebook (2^nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Miller, Jane E. (2004). The Chicago guide to writing about numbers. Chicago: University of Chicago.

Mohr, Lawrence B. (1990). Understanding significance testing. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Morgan, David L. (1988). Focus groups as qualitative research. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Patton, Michael Quinn. (2002). Qualitative evaluation and research methods (3^rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Paulos, John Allen. (1990). Innumeracy: Mathematical illiteracy and its consequences. New York: Vintage.

Paulos, John Allen. (1992). Beyond numeracy: Ruminations of a numbers man. New York: Vintage.

Paulos, John Allen. (1995). A mathematician reads the newspaper. New York: BasicBooks.

Salsburg, David. (2001). The lady tasting tea: How statistics revolutionized science in the twentieth century. New York: W.H. Freeman.

Schwandt, Thomas A. (2001). Dictionary of qualitative inquiry (2^nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Stewart, David W., & Shamdasani, Prem N. (1990). Focus groups: Theory and practice. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Strauss, Anselm, & Corbin, Juliet. (1998). Basics of qualitative research: Techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory. (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Tomm, Winnie. (Ed.). (1987). The effects of feminist approaches on research methodologies. Calgary: Wilfrid Laurier University.

Tufte, Edward R. (1983). The visual display of quantitative information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

Tufte, Edward R. (1990). Envisioning information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

Tufte, Edward R. (1997). Visual explanations: Images, evidence and narrative. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

Vogt, W. Paul. (2005). Dictionary of statistics and methodology: A nontechnical guide for the social sciences (3rd ed.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Webb, Eugene J., Campbell, Donald T., Schwartz, Richard D., & Sechrest, Lee. (1969). Unobtrusive measures: Nonreactive research in the social sciences. Chicago: Rand McNally.

Wolcott, Harry F.. (2001). Writing up qualitative research (2^nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage.

Weisberg, Herbert F. (1992). Central tendency and variability. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Weiss, Robert S. (1994). Learning from strangers: The art and method of qualitative interview studies. New York: The Free Press.

Williams, Frederick, & Monge, Peter. (2001). Reasoning with statistics: How to read quantitative research (5^th ed.). Orlando, FL: Harcourt.

Yin, Robert K. (2003). Case study research: Design and methods (3^rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

IV. Nature of science and systematic inquiry

Alkoff, Linda, & Potter, Elizabeth. (Eds.). (1993). Feminist epistemologies. New York: Routledge.

Audi, Robert. (Ed.). (1995). The Cambridge dictionary of philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University.

Ben-Ari, Moti. (2005). Just a theory: Exploring the nature of science. Amherst, NY: Prometheus.

Beveridge, W.I.B. (1950). The art of scientific investigation. New York: Vintage.

Butterfield, Herbert. (1957). The origins of modern science. New York: Freepress.

Chalmers, A.F. (1999). What is this thing called science? (3^rd ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Hackett.

Eagleton, Terry. (2003). After theory. New York: Basic Books.

Feyerabend, Paul. (1993). Against method (3rd ed.). London: Verso. (Original work published 1975)

Fish, Stanley. (1980). Is there a text in this class?: The power of interpretive communities. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Fleck, Ludwik. (1979). Genesis and development of a scientific fact. Thaddeus J. Trenn and Robert K. Merton (Eds.). (Fred Bradley & Thaddeus J. Trenn, Trans.). Chicago: University of Chicago. (Original work published 1935)

Garman, Noreen. (1996). Qualitative inquiry: Meaning and menace for educational researchers. In Peter Willis & Bernie Neville (Eds.), Qualitative research practice in adult education (pp. 11-29). Ringwood, Victoria, Australia: David Lovell.

Garratt, Dean, & Hodkinson, Phil. (1998). Can there be criteria for selecting research criteria? – A hermeneutical analysis of an inescapable dilemma. Qualitative Inquiry, 4(4), 515-539.

Gordon, Scott. (1991). The history and philosophy of social science. London: Routledge.

Guba, Egon G. (Ed.). (1990). The paradigm dialog. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Haack, Susan. (2007). Defending science – within reason: Between scientism and cynicism. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. (Original work published 2003)

Hannaford, Ivan. (1996). Race: The history of an idea in the west. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, Johns Hopkins University.

Jones, James H. (1993). Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment (2nd ed.). New York: The Free Press.

Kaplan, Abraham. (1964). The conduct of inquiry: Methodology for behavioral science. New York: Harper & Row.

Kline, Morris. (1985). Mathematics and the search for knowledge. Oxford, UK: Oxford University.

Kuhn, Thomas S. (1970). The structure of scientific revolutions (2nd ed., enlarged). Chicago: University of Chicago.

Lawrence, Christopher, & Shapin, Steven. (Eds.). (1998). Science incarnate: Historical embodiments of natural knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago.

Madigan, Robert, Johnson, Susan, & Linton, Patricia. (1995). The language of psychology: APA style as epistemology. American Psychologist, 50(6), 428-436.

Marshall, Catherine. (1990). Goodness criteria: Are they objective or judgment calls? In Egon G. Guba (Ed.), The paradigm dialog (pp. 188-197). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

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Oakley, Ann. (2000a). Experiments in knowing: Gender and method in the social sciences. New York: The New Press.

Oakley, Ann. (2000b). The rights of animals and other creatures. In Experiments in knowing: Gender and method in the social sciences (pp. 260-288 and 340-341). New York: The New Press.

Polanyi, Michael. (1958). Personal knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago.

Polanyi, Michael. (1967). The tacit dimension. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.

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Popper, Karl R. (1980). The logic of scientific discovery. London: Routledge. (Original work published 1934)

Richardson, Laurel, & St. Pierre, Elizabeth Adams. (2005). Writing: A method of inquiry. In Norman Denzin & Yvonna S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (3^rd ed., pp. 959-978). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Schwandt, Thomas A. (1996). Farewell to criteriology. Qualitative Inquiry, 2(1), 58-72.

Smith, John K. (1990). Alternative research paradigms and the problem of criteria. In Egon G. Guba (Ed.), The paradigm dialog (pp. 167-187). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Smith, John K., & Deemer, Deborah K. (2000). The problem of criteria in the age of relativism. In Norman Denzin & Yvonna S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (2^nd ed., pp. 877-896). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

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Smith, John K., & Hodkinson, Phil. (2005). Relativism, criteria, and politics. In Norman Denzin & Yvonna S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (3^rd ed., pp. 915-932). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

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Tobias, Sheila. (1994). Overcoming math anxiety. New York: Norton.

Watson, James D. (1968). The double helix. New York: Atheneum.

Wilson, Patrick. (1983). Second-hand knowledge: An inquiry into cognitive authority. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Ziman, John. (1968). Public knowledge: An essay concerning the social dimension of science. London: Cambridge University.

Ziman, John. (1984). An introduction to science studies: The philosophical and social aspects of science and technology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University.