Dear Colleagues,
I hope you are well today. I'm currently giving some thought to the best research methods options for understanding the perceptions/experiences/expectations of International Students for Library Services support. I wanted to approach this topic from a phenomenological foundation (Critical Phenomenology; Critical Librarianship).
However, I'm still researching if that's the best option. For example, I could imagine constructing a survey then following up with qualitative interviews. Since this population has never received a library based survey before, I am leaning towards a qualitative set of interviews as the focus for developing themes on Library Services for eventually producing a much more relevant survey. I'm interested to know their perception/experiences of our Library Services and what they expect from library services. To throw a unique twist into the question...these students exist on a campus with librarians but no actual physical library, only an online library.
Does anyone have recommendations? Can it purely be a qualitative endeavour as the foundation via Phenomenology? Or should it be Grounded Theory for example?
Any advice is greatly appreciated,
Sincerely,
PJG
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Paul Graham
University Librarian
Yorkville University
He/Him/His
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