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Capturing Qualitative Data: Northwestern University Special Libraries' Acknowledgments Database.

Assessment and supporting data have become of increasing interest in librarianship. In this paper, we describe the development and implementation of the Northwestern University Library Acknowledgments Database tool, which gathers and documents qualitative data, as well as its component reporting fun...

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Published in:Portal: Libraries & the Academy Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 571 - 586
Main Authors: Stigberg, Sara, Guittar, Michelle, Morse, Geoffrey
Format: pictorial tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press Oct2015
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