Survey of Aviation Online Library Research Guides

Horton, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/0194262x.2021.1999883

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“…19 Recent studies, concerned more with the specific books included in the content of LibGuides, have reported positive correlations between patron views of book assets in LibGuides compared to the library's circulations statistics. 20 While not all cross-institutional studies focusing on content report on specific book resources, book citation variables are a significant focus of recent studies of LibGuides targeting sub-disciplinary topics (mechatronics; 21 non-engineering aviation; 22 and wine, enology, and viticulture 23 ) and new service areas (3D printing in libraries 24 and data visualization research support services 25 ).…”

Section: Books Promoted In Library Guidesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Orth-Alfie,

Wolfe

2024

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To study library guides, as published on Springshare’s LibGuides platform, new approaches are needed to expand the scope of the research, ensure comprehensiveness of data collection, and reduce bias for content analysis. Computational methods can be utilized to conduct a nuanced and thorough evaluation that critically assesses the resources promoted in library guides. Web-based library guides are curated by librarians to provide easy access to high-quality information and resources in a variety of formats to support the research needs of their users. Recent scholarship considers library guides as valuable resources and as de facto publications, highlighting the need for critical study. In this article, the authors present a novel model for comprehensively gathering data about a specific genre of books from individual LibGuide pages and applying computational methods to explore the resultant data. Beginning with a pre-selected list of 159 books, we programmatically queried the titles using the LibGuides Community search engine. After cleaning and filtering the resultant data, we compiled a list of 20,484 book references (of which 6,212 are unique) on 1,529 LibGuide pages. By testing against inclusion and exclusion criteria to ensure relevancy, we identified a total of 281 titles relevant to our topic. To gain insights for future study, citation analysis metrics are presented to reveal patterns of frequency, co-occurrence, and bibliographic coupling of books promoted in LibGuides. This proof-of-concept could be adopted for a variety of applications, including assessment of collections, public services, critical librarianship, and other complex questions to enable a richer and more thorough understanding of the information landscape of LibGuides.

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