The literature review should provide a story made on the resources you used in your thesis. Research works presented in the literature review should be related to your work and linked together appropriately. For each paper/research work/resource you used you have to give a short summary of the work and then provide your opinion on how it is related to your work, this should include any criticism you have or ideas that you adopted in your work. The Harvard style is used for referencing resources. Example:
Peggy Johnson defines collection development as “the thoughtful process of developing a library collection in response to institutional priorities and community or user needs and interests” (Johnson, 2009, p. 1). According to Johnson (2009, p. 1), collection development forms part of the broader concept of collection management, which involves “an expanded suite of decisions about weeding, cancelling serials, storage, and preservation”. In an academic library environment, the selection of titles should primarily support the teaching, learning and research needs of the university staff, students and researchers (University of Western Australia Library, 2015). However, the practice of bundling journal titles into one large all-encompassing package has meant that collection development decisions are now often made on a publisher level, rather than on a title-by-title basis (Ball, cited in Carlson & Pope, 2009, p. 385). In this sense aggregator, packages are similar in nature to monographic blanket orders, where a library agrees to purchase everything that a particular publisher has published (Thompson, Wilder & Button, 2000, p. 214).
After the previous studies’ reviews, the Current Research Contribution section should be presented.
In this chapter, students should draft their research model and list their hypotheses (if applicable).
Research Framework
At the end of your literature review, you need to develop a framework (Research Model) that provides the reader with a visual demonstration of the key
factors/variables being tested in your research and how these factors/variables are linked. if you are planning to do significance testing you should highlight your hypotheses at this point, if you have not done so already within the literature review.