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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Using the semantic differential to determine attitudes of academic librarians toward concepts of continuing education and obsolescence Abstract: A random sample of twenty libraries in Pennsylvania, a representative state, were invited to participate in research about the attitudes of librarians, both directors and non- directors, regarding modes and activities of continuing education. The semantic differential, a measuring technique based on bipolar scales, was constructed. The instrument included concepts representing continuing education and obsolescence in the library profession. Site visits were made by the investigator. Analysis of the results taken from the seventy participants were used to construct attitude profiles and similarity maps. The profiles differentiate the attitudes held by directors and non-directors. The similarity maps illustrate the arrangement of the concepts, presented in the instrument, in the semantic space for each group of librarians. Statistical significance of the differences was tested by using the group mean differences, standard deviation, and a distance formula. The results show directors and non- directors do not always agree on the judgments made against the concepts within the bipolar scales of the semantic differential. The arrangement of the concepts within the semantic spaces for the groups shows differences in the judgments made by the groups. |
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