Dissertation Information for Lawrence M. Enoch NAME: - Lawrence M. Enoch
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science
SCHOOL:
- University of North Texas (USA) (1992)
ADVISORS: - Herman L. Totten
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Donald B. Cleveland - Ana D. Cleveland - Howard Thomas Hurt
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Librarians' attitudes toward computers, desktop publishing systems and expert systems
Abstract: A Q-sort was used to measure differences in academic and public librarian attitudes toward computers, desktop publishing systems and expert systems. Fifty-two academic and sixty-two public librarians responded. The responses were sorted into groups based on the type of library and whether or not the respondent followed the stated Q-sort distribution.
Statistical analysis including one-way analysis of variance and Tukey-B tests indicated that there was no significant difference between the means for attitude toward expert systems and the means for attitude toward desktop publishing systems. These attitudes in turn were both statistically different from the means for attitude toward computers.
When groups were compared on attitudes toward the three variables, the only statistically significant differences were between nondistributional academic librarians and distributional public librarians on the desktop publishing variable.
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