Below is the 'Word' document of my presentation:-
Topic:
A case study of catalogers having advanced computer literacy knowledge or computer technology skills achieved huge contribution to cataloguing.
Initial Research Question:
Do cataloguers have advanced computer skills increasing and facilitating cataloguing achievement and productivity? How?
Research sub-questions:
1. Could cataloguers with little or without any computer knowledge / skills survive?
2. Are cataloguers with computer knowledge directly having impact to the productivity and achievement?
3. Why do cataloguers have computer skills only influence on specific nature of cataloguing (for example, batch download bibliographic records) or also on original cataloguing records (create one by one)?
4. How could the computer skills reflecting on the productivity of bibliographical records?
Hypothesis:
Catalogers have advanced computer literacy knowledge or computer technology skills achieving huge contribution to batch bibliographical records rather than original cataloguing records.
Literature Review
Buschman (2007)A Rough Measure of Copy Cataloging Productivity in the Academic Library.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1140&context=libphilprac
Importance of this study:
- the influence to the future of increasing cataloguing of electronic materials or huge electronic databases (70% of whole collection) of most academic libraries in the world
- the impact of costs and budgets of bibliographical records cataloguing
- the indirectly employment requirements of cataloguers
- Would traditional cataloguers survive?
Methodology
Participants
Voluntary participants (6 male & 17 female)in Catalouging Dept.
Data collect
Questionnaires (5 points Likert style)
- send to participants directly
- Closed-ended questions
Interviews
- Face to face
- Talk
- Get their opinions
Observation
- direct observation (I prefer to set it as 3 years (2005-2007)due to the productivity extremely high after frequently using computer softwares and programming on catalouging. However, I need to explore the difference level of influences by it on different categories of bibliographical record nature)
Data Analysis
- Analysis the collected data
- Triangulation method
- Grounded theory developed
