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___________________[PRO] Personal Construct Theory as a research tool in Information Science

Personal Construct Theory as a research tool in Library and Information Science.
Case Study: Development of a user-driven classification of photographs.

Professor Mary Burke
Head of Department
Department of Library and Information Studies (http://www.ucd.ie/~lis)
University College Dublin

This research project applies Personal Construct Theory and Repertory Grids to individual user perceptions of photographs. Preliminary results show a high level of consistency among the personal constructs which participants used to distinguish between photographs from the Irish Folklore Archive.