Dissertation Information for Doris Shinobu HayashikawaNAME:
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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: SELECTION OF SCI-TECH BOOKS: A STUDY UTILIZING A BINARY CHOICE REPEATED MEASURES MODEL, A SIMPLE CROSSOVER DESIGN, AND A FORCED CHOICE RANKING OF TEN SELECTION PRINCIPLES Abstract: Sixty-six unrelated librarians, randomly assigned to two groups, participated in an experiment requiring select/reject decisions for two sets of twenty science and technology books. A simple crossover or changeover design was used to test a hypothesis that participation in a regional resource sharing network, promising facilitated document delivery and an online circulation system for network members, would result in constrained or conservative buying. The hypothesis was supported in the case of one set of books only. For this set of books, the null hypothesis of equality of means for the total cost of books selected per librarian was rejected since a Z value of the 1.82 (p = 0.0344) was obtained. Additionally, the test statistic of the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test, T(,(-)) = 122, exceeded the critical value, allowing a rejection of the null hypothesis of equal distribution of ranks about a mean of zero for differences in rate of selection per book under the conditions of a facilitated regional resource sharing network and traditional interlibrary loan. |
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- Thomas B. Wall - University of Pittsburgh (1994)