Qualitative Research Teaching Circle: In class Activity

1. What are the hallmarks of qualitative research in this study?  

2. How did the libraries use qualitative methods to get user data?  

3. What did they learn?  (What were the results?)

4. How can this study, the methods used, and the data gathered, be applied to the UGA Libraries?
5. What benefits come from knowing this type of information about our users?  
6. Do you foresee any drawbacks?

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Bedwell, L., & Banks, C. (2013). Seeing through the eyes of students: participant observation in an academic library. Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library & Information Practice & Research, 8(1), 1-17.

Bryant, J. (2009). What are students doing in our library? Ethnography as a method of exploring library user behaviour. Library & Information Research, 33(103), 3-9.

Mizrachi, D. (2010). Undergraduates' academic information and library behaviors: preliminary results. Reference Services Review, 38(4), 571-580. doi:10.1108/00907321011090737

Montgomery, S. E. (2014). Library space assessment: user learning behaviors in the library. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 40(1), 70-75. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2013.11.003

Foster, N. F., & Gibbons, S.L. (2007). Studying students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries.

Foster, N. F. (2013). Studying students: A second look.  Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries.

Priestner, A., & Borg, M. (2016). User experience in libraries: Applying ethnography and human-centred design.  New York, NY : Routledge.