Author Contact Information
- Mary C. ThillMary Thill is the Humanities Librarian and Reference Coordinator at the Ronald Williams Library, and a Professor on the library faculty, at Northeastern Illinois University.
- Frank LambertFrank Lambert is the Program Coordinator for the Master in Library Science degree program, and an Associate Professor in the College of Education, at Middle Tennessee State University.
- James W. RosenzweigJames Rosenzweig is the Education & Children's Studies Librarian at the John F. Kennedy Library, and a Professor on the library faculty, at Eastern Washington University.
Published Work
- It’s What’s on the Inside That Counts: Analyzing Student Use of Sources in Composition Research Papers, by Rosenzweig, Lambert and ThillAdditional analysis of the multi-institution study data, including citation analysis as well as application of The WHY Method, appeared in Volume 16, Issue 4 of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice in December of 2021.
- Making Sense of Student Source Selection: Using the WHY Method to Analyze Authority in Student Research Bibliographies, by Lambert, Thill and RosenzweigOur first publication of data from the multi-institution study applying the revised form of the WHY Method taxonomy, appeared in Volume 82, Number 5 of College & Research Libraries in July of 2021.
- Student Constructions of Authority in the Framework Era: A Bibliometric Pilot Study Using a Faceted Taxonomy, by Rosenzweig, Thill and LambertOur initial pilot study, which employed our expanded/modified version of Leeder, Markey & Yakel's taxonomy, appeared in Volume 80, Number 3 of College & Research Libraries in April 2019.
- A Model for Analyzing and Understanding How Novice Researchers Construct Source Authority, by Rosenzweig, Thill, and LambertThis is a publication from the Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (February, 2019), sharing data and analysis from our pilot study originally presented at a session at the annual meeting of that association in October, 2018.
- A Faceted Taxonomy for Rating Student Bibliographies in an Online Information Literacy Game, by Leeder, Markey & YakelThe taxonomy we use was published in its original form by Chris Leeder, Karen Markey, and Elizabeth Yakel in this article, which appeared in Volume 73, Number 2 of College & Research Libraries in 2012.
Presentations
- SENYLRC Presentation (Fall 2019)This is a recording of a webinar we offered on The WHY Method to participants from the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council.
- ALA Annual Presentation (June 2019)This is a copy of our slides presented at ALA Annual 2019 - the data and analysis presented are built on our taxonomy, although the name "The WHY Method" had not yet been established, and so isn't present on these slides.