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Exploring Critical And Indigenous Research Methods With A Research Community: Part Ii – The Landing, Robert Schroeder Dec 2014

Exploring Critical And Indigenous Research Methods With A Research Community: Part Ii – The Landing, Robert Schroeder

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article is the second and final installment of my research exploring critical and Indigenous research methods and their relation to LIS. What is the context of these twentieth century methods and what might they mean to a librarian in the twenty-first century? Read along as I discover, for myself and my “research community,” some unexpected, and perhaps profound, aspects of these research methods and their associated worldviews.


Exploring Critical And Indigenous Research Methods With A Research Community: Part I – The Leap, Robert Schroeder Jun 2014

Exploring Critical And Indigenous Research Methods With A Research Community: Part I – The Leap, Robert Schroeder

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Librarians create collections of works grounded in many western academic forms of research and they conduct research using many of these qualitative and quantitative methodologies as well. But are there perhaps research methods around the margins, ones that might help us ask different questions or let our research serve different ends? In this, the first of two articles, I describe how I discovered critical and indigenous research methods and how my research became grounded in a digital community.


Breaking Silos: Staffing For The Open Access Library, Jill Emery Mar 2014

Breaking Silos: Staffing For The Open Access Library, Jill Emery

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This presentation looks at changes occurring in academic libraries, with special focus on open access, new service models, and future options.


When A Collection Is Not A Collection, Jill Emery Feb 2014

When A Collection Is Not A Collection, Jill Emery

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

A pdf version of a brief PowerPoint presentation by Portland State University Librarian Jill Emery on new services in libraries, necessitated by shifting landscapes in higher education. Compares old and new models, and looks at the major features of 21st century collections.