Content Analysis of ACRL Conference Papers

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1991

Journal Title

College & Research Libraries

Volume

52

Abstract

This study examines the content of papers presented at the second, third, and fourth national conferences of the Association of College and Research Libraries. An analysis of the papers presented at the first national conference revealed that one-third of them were research reports. Given that ACRL has initiated a series of activities designed to encourage the research pursuits of its members in the time period under study, it is our hypothesis that the second, third, and fourth conference papers will contain more research reports than were present in the first set of papers. Using the first study as a baseline against which future conferences can be compared, we examined papers presented at subsequent conferences using the technique developed by Pauline Atherton for analyzing research methods in the published literature of information science.

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