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Swygart-Hobaugh, Mandy; Anderson, Raeda; George, Denise; Glogowski, Joel – College & Research Libraries, 2022
We present findings from an exploratory quantitative content analysis case study of 156 doctoral dissertations from Georgia State University that investigates doctoral student researchers' methodology practices (used quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods) and data practices (used primary data, secondary data, or both). We discuss the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Students, Research Methodology, Data Collection
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Holt, Michael O.; Chew, Amy K. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2022
Data from assessment of library building use can aid in making important decisions, such as where a renovation would be most impactful, in addition to the actual impact of those types of renovations. This article examines space usage data collected at Valdosta State University's Odum Library from 2017 to 2021. Renovations in two key areas occurred…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Improvement, Use Studies, User Needs (Information)
Kennedy, Mary Lee, Ed. – Association of Research Libraries, 2019
This issue of Research Library Issues looks at the critical role and participation of libraries and librarians in supporting the data science revolution. The articles contained in this issue are: (1) Data Literacy as a Pathway to Data Science at Georgia Tech (Catherine Murray-Rust, with Ameet Doshi, Jay Forrest, Ximin Mi, and Alison Valk); (2) New…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Educational Trends, Data Analysis
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Scalfani, Vincent F. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2017
Programmatic text analysis can be used to understand patterns and reveal trends in data that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to uncover with manual coding methods. This work uses programmatic text analysis, specifically term frequency counts, to study nearly 10,000 chemistry thesis and dissertation titles from 1911-2015. The thesis and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Theses, Doctoral Dissertations, Scientific Research