?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Una+introducci%C3%83%C2%B3n+a+las+metodolog%C3%83%C2%ADas+de+investigaci%C3%83%C2%B3n+cualitativa+aplicadas+a+la+bibliotecolog%C3%83%C2%ADa&rft.creator=Muela-Meza%2C+Zapopan+Mart%C3%83%C2%ADn&rft.subject=AB.+Information+theory+and+library+theory.&rft.subject=GH.+Education.&rft.subject=GI.+Training.&rft.description=This+article+is+an+introductory+work+to+the+qualitative+research+methodologies+and+methods+aplied+to+the+Library+and+Information+Studies+(LIS)+field%2C+as+a+way+to+expand+the+horizons+of+librarians+so+they+might+be+able+to+explore+different+roads+to+improve+the+common+telology+of+LIS+which+is+basically+to+fuse+the+library+(informational+-+cognitive)+services+with+the+needs+and+issues%2C+wishes+and+dreams+of+society+in+its+respective+communities.+It+argues+for+the+demystification+of+LIS+research+which+is+impregnated+with+an+halo+and+cult+almost+mystical+that+far+from+motivating+librarians+both+practical+and+teorethical+to+carry+out+research+work+in+a+daily+basis%2C+it+plays+an+inhibitor+role+affecting+not+only+the+development+of+LIS+research%2C+but+the+LIS+profession+itself%3B+this+demystification+implies+that+research+could+be+for+everyone+who+wants+it+to.+It+also+argues+that+it+is+necessary+to+study+in+depth+the+epistemological+debate+in+LIS+to+promote+LIS+research+as+a+sub-discipline+and+the+education+and+training+of+LIS+researchers+in+order+to+transform+such+a+plausible+activity+into+an+attractive+one+that+becomes+even+a+fun+thing+to+do.+[NB%3A+History+of+publication+of+this+article.%0A[NB%3A+History+of+the+publication+of+this+article.+This+was+originally+written+on+the+10th+of+May+2004.+It+was+requested+by+Saul+Armendariz+Sanchez%2C+the+president+of+the+Mexican+Association+of+Librarians+(AMBAC)+of+that+time+(2003-2005)+to+be+published+in+the+journal+of+such+association%2C+Liber.+AMBAC's+coordinator+of+publications+of+2004%2C+Carlos+Curiel+Rivera+informed+the+author+that+this+article+should+be+published+in+Liber+in+the+Vol.+6%2C+No.+2%2C+in+June+2004.+However+such+publishing+never+took+place%2C+27+months+later+since+its+publishing+must+have+taken+place+)(today+is+26.07.2006)+neither+Saul+Armendariz+Sanchez%2C+nor+Carlos+Curiel+Rivera+have+delivered+a+copy+of+the+article+to+the+author+in+any+format%3A+paper%2C+PDF%2C+online+URL+in+HTML+or+whatever+with+the+collated+pages+of+the+Vol.+6%2C+No.+2.+A+year+later%2C+in+July+2005%2C+the+new+president+of+AMBAC+--for+the+period+2005-2007--%2C+Felipe+Becerril+Torres+informed+the+author+that+such+Vol.+6+No.+2+issue+of+Liber+was+still+waiting+to+be+printed.+But+such+president+stepped+down+his+charge+as+president+of+AMBAC+due+to+illness+on+the+8th+of+May+2006%2C+so+this+article+was+not+published+during+his+term.+On+the+18+of+May+2006+Hortensia+Lobato+Reyes+replaced+Felipe+Becerril+Torres+as+new+president+of+AMBAC+and+until+today+she+has+not+informed+the+author+if+this+article+has+been+actually+published.+Recently+it+has+been+shown+on+the+Website+of+AMBAC+that+the+Vol.+6+with+numbers+1+to+4+has+been+published+(see%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ambac.org.mx%2Fpublicaciones.htm)%2C+however+this+article+of+this+author+has+not+appeared+anywhere+on+that+site+and+when+tracked+on+the+databases+which+index+Liber+such+bibliographic+record+does+not+exist+either.+Therefore%2C+with+the+current+evidences%2C+it+is+a+fact+tha+this+article+was+never+actually+published+by+the+2003-2005+president+of+AMBAC+Saul+Armendariz+Sanchez%2C+as+it+was+either+published+by+the+2+subsequent+AMBAC's+presidents.+And+today+27+months+later+since+suppossedly+was+published+it+is+highly+likely+that+never+will+be+published+by+any+Liber+-+AMBAC's+officers.+Thus%2C+the+Mexican+Association+of+Librarians+requested+this+article+exprofesso+for+the+celebration+of+AMBAC's+50th+anniversary+through+its+president+in+turn%2C+Saul+Armendariz+Sanchez%2C+it+was+approved+by+him+and+the+Association's+publications+team+and+peers%2C+they+promised+to+be+published+on+the+Liber+Vol.+6%2C+No.+2%2C+June+2004%2C+but+they+never+actually+published+it.+Finally%2C+this+article+has+been+fully+published+as+it+was+originally+written+in+2004+by+the+Peruvian+journal+BiblioDocencia%3A+Revista+de+Profesores+de+Bibliotecolog%C3%83%C2%ADa+(Library-Teaching%3A+journal+of+faculty+and+lecturers+of+library+and+information+science)+in+the+Vol.+2%2C+No.+12%2C+quarter+January-March+2006%2C+pp.+4-12.+And+from+now+on+it+should+be+cited+from+this+definitive+2006+bibliographic+record.+Note+written+by+the+author+on+the+26+July+2006%2C+Sheffield%2C+UK]&rft.publisher=Asociaci%C3%83%C2%B3n+Mexicana+de+Bibliotecarios%2C+A.+C.&rft.date=2004&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Feprints.rclis.org%2F3638%2F1%2Fzapopan.pdf&rft.relation=ARRAY(0xaa72364)&rft.identifier=Muela-Meza%2C+Zapopan+Mart%C3%83%C2%ADn+Una+introducci%C3%83%C2%B3n+a+las+metodolog%C3%83%C2%ADas+de+investigaci%C3%83%C2%B3n+cualitativa+aplicadas+a+la+bibliotecolog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