The Critical Assessment of Research

Alan Bailin is Associate Professor of Library Services, Hofstra University. He has a PhD in English (McGill University, 1983) and an MLS (Queens College, City University of New York, 2001). He has been associate editor for Computers and the Humanities and a reviewer for both the National Science Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Among his many publications are Online Tutorials, Narratives and Scripts (Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2007), The Evolution of Academic Libraries: The Networked Environment (Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2005), The Linguistic Assumptions Underlying Readability Formulae (Journal of Language and Communication, 2001), and a book entitled Metaphor and the Logic of Language Use (Legas, 1998). Ann Grafstein is Associate Professor of Library Services, Hofstra University. She has a Ph.D. in linguistics (McGill University, 1984) and an MLIS (University of Western Ontario, 1989). Her publications include Information Literacy and Technology: An Examination of Some Issues (portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007), The Evolution of Academic Libraries: The Networked Environment (Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2005), A Discipline-Based Approach to Information Literacy (Journal of Academic Librarianship 2002), and The Linguistic Assumptions Underlying Readability Formulae (Journal of Language and Communication, 2001). She received the prestigious Association of College and Research Libraries Instruction Section Publication Award for A Discipline-Based Approach to Information Literacy in 2004.