Revised edition of: Basic research methods for librarians / Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Ronald R. Powell. Fifth edition. [2010].
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Research and librarianship -- Developing the research study -- Principles of quantitative methods -- Survey research, the questionnaire, and sampling -- Experimental research -- Analysis of qualitative data -- Principles of qualitative methods -- Interviews -- Ethnographic approaches to qualitative research -- Analysis of qualitative data -- Historical research -- Applied research -- Writing the research proposal -- Written and oral presentation of the research project