Dissertation Information for Rachel Anne Fleming-May NAME: - Rachel Anne Fleming-May
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science
SCHOOL:
- University of Alabama (USA) (2008)
ADVISORS: - Charles B. Osburn
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Gary Allen Copeland - Tonyia J. Tidline - Elizabeth Aversa - Claire Major
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: "Use" in the literature of Library and Information Science: A concept analysis and typology
Abstract: The "use" of information and library resources and services is frequently presented in Library and Information Science (LIS) literature as a primitive concept: an idea so fundamental to the theoretical framework at hand as to be indefinable--even when presented as an operational variable. In fact, an examination of the LIS literature reveals that use is a multi-dimensional concept that requires clarification for effective empirical examination.
This dissertation employs the Evolutionary Concept Analysis (ECA) method developed by nursing scholar Beth L. Rodgers (2000) to consider representations of use in a 200-item sample of LIS journal literature. ECA investigates the development of concepts by examining the attributes and characteristics of a concept as represented within a specific discipline (e.g., empathy as a concept in nursing) and within specific chronological, disciplinary, and theoretical contexts.
Rather than to provide "the" definition of use, the purpose of this study is to illuminate the difficulties presented by the lack of clarity surrounding the use concept in LIS literature and practice. This process has produced a Typology of Use that can serve as a springboard to future empirical and theoretical projects in this area.
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