The Global Impact Study was presented — for the first time! — at the IFLA 2008 World Library & Information Congress, held from August 10–14 in Quebec City, Canada. This year's topic: Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding.
Continue reading...July 23, 2008
The information ecology methodology allows a group to illustrate the networks of trust that exist in a geographic community. The tool works like a photograph of people's personal networking experience. After developing several linkage maps, researchers can detect patterns in terms of trusted sources of information, or the information ecology around a focal point (a public access site in the context of the Global Impact Study project).
Continue reading...July 23, 2008
Ethnography literally means to "write (or represent) a culture." Ethnographers look for patterns, describe local relationships (formal and informal), understandings and meanings (tacit and explicit), and try to make sense of a place and a case in relation to the entire social setting and all social relationships. They also contextualize these in wider contexts (e.g., the wider economy, government policies, etc.).
Continue reading...July 1, 2008
The Country Research Teams have focused their summer 2008 research activities that will inform the development of research designs for the next phase of the Global Impact Study project. The primary methodology employed for this purpose is information ecology mapping (also known as linkage or social mapping).
Continue reading...June 10, 2008
The first International Advisory Committee Meeting for the Global Impact Stud project was held on June 2nd and 3rd, 2008, in New Delhi. Here's an overview of what we discussed and the recommendations that emerged.
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August 21, 2008
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