Research, Assessment, & Design

LIS 570 is an introduction to the design of research projects, and the use of research methods to conduct evaluation in library and information science.

It’s helpful to think of this course a survey of research and evaluation in LIS. Just as a survey course in literature or history is meant to give a general overview, so too is LIS 570 with respect to methods and evaluation.

Schedule

Lecture: Video lectures will be posted each Friday at 11am PST.

Class Discussion: Each week your TA’s and I will host a 1 hour course discussion. The discussion will be an opportunity for you to offer thoughts, pose questions, or debate with us about that week’s topic.

Discussion times (Pacific Standard Time):

• Mondays, 8:30 AM - Zoom Link
• Tuesdays, 10:30 AM Zoom Link

Office hours: Office hours with TA’s are by appointment.

• Section A, Mondays at 9:30 AM - Zoom Link
• Section B, Fridays at 4 PM - Zoom Link

If you need to schedule a meeting with Dr. Weber use this link.

Weekly Topics

• 9/30: Course Introduction
• 10/05: Conceptual Foundations of Research Methods
• 10/12: Research Ethics
• 10/19: Research Design
• 10/26: Qualitative - Methods for Data Collection
• 11/02: Qualitative - Data Analysis
• 11/09: Quantitative - Methods for Data Collection
• 11/16: Quantitative - Data Analysis
• 11/23: Design Methods
• 11/30: Research Reporting
• 12/07: What's Next?

Video recordings of the lectures are available on pages throughout this course site and on YouTube.

About the class

Staff: This class is taught by Nic, and two TA’s - Claire and Wan-Chen.

Questions: See the FAQ page above

Acknowledgements

Thanks and appreciation to Ricardo Gomez for sharing materials related to his teaching of this class, @tttkay for the ‘Black Excellence in LIS’ reading list which informed many of the readings used here.

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