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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Building and maintaining Internet information services Abstract: This study addressed the problem of Internet information services having to meet the increasing information demands of users in the dynamic Internet environment. The purpose of this research was to use K-12 digital reference services as a starting point to better understand the process of building and maintaining Internet information services. This study had three specific objectives: (1) to build and apply a conceptual framework based on complexity research, literature, and the researcher's experience; (2) to use this conceptual framework to empirically describe how organizations, specifically K-12 digital reference services, build and maintain services in the dynamic Internet environment; and (3) to seek commonalties across these descriptions. In order to accomplish these objectives the following research questions were asked: (1) What are exemplary K-12 digital reference services' detectors (i.e. inputs) for Internet agent types, internal inputs, and influences external to both the Internet and the organization? (2)What are exemplary K-12 digital reference services' rules for processing the input from detectors and, through resources, building and maintaining effectors (i.e. services)? (3) What are exemplary K-12 digital reference services' effectors (i.e. outputs) used to meet users' information needs? |
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