Small-Group Interaction among Professional Librarians

Discovering Group Interaction Patterns in a Teachers Professional Community

Managers and group leaders of a community may not have enough information to help them direct the community development. In this paper, we adopt social network analysis, graph theory and data mining techniques to analyze groups in a community at their different project periods. Each group is presented by several attributes that are computed from social network analysis and graph theory to repre...

Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians: Is There Still a Disconnect Between Professional Education and Professional Responsibilities?

Theresa Westbrock is Instruction Coordinator at New Mexico State University Library; e-mail: twestbro@ nmsu.edu. Sarah Fabian is First Year Experience Librarian in the Halle Library at Eastern Michigan University; e-mail: [email protected]. © Theresa Westbrock and Sarah Fabian In 1993, based on the proficiencies for bibliographic instruction librarians (1986), Diana Shonrock and Craig Mulder in...

The Analysis of Small Group Knowledge Building Effort among Teachers Using an Interaction Analysis Model

In this paper, we investigate teachers’ interaction in Knowledge Forum using the interaction analysis model [12]. The teachers were given two tasks that were designed to engage them in building knowledge in the belief mode and the design mode [1]. The patterns of online interactions generated by these two tasks were compared. The results indicate that there is no discernable difference. It also...

professional ethics & its relationship with demographic characteristics of librarians

introduction: the goal of professional librarians and informatics is providing useful services for users. this study aims to recognize the rate of commitment and authority of librarians to ethics instruction. method: this study is an applied ex post facto research. the population of study includes all librarians of isfahan public libraries in 2012. by in access selection, 207 questionnaires wer...

INTERACTION OF PROTEINS WITH SMALL MOLECULES