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Dissertation Information for Jerold A. Nelson

NAME:
- Jerold A. Nelson
- (Alias) Jerold Arthur Nelson

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Berkeley (USA) (1971)

ADVISORS:
- Robert D. Harlan

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- J. Periam Danton
- Lyman A. Glenny

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Communication between reference librarians and the faculty in selected California state colleges

Abstract: A survey of 694 faculty members, comprising about twenty percent of the faculty population of six colleges in the California State College system, was utilized to determine the degree to which the faculty were aware of eleven reference services offered by their college library reference department. This index of awareness was assumed to provide a measure of the success of library-faculty communication. The mean score of respondents on the index demonstrated that the average faculty member was aware of barely half of the services actually available to him. faculty members in the sciences were less aware than faculty members in other teaching areas. Awareness varied directly with academic rank, experience at the college, membership on committees dealing with library affairs, and reported library and reference use. Faculty members from College A achieved an awareness score that was significantly higher than the score of respondents at four of the other five colleges. Sixty-two reference librarians, comprising almost one hundred percent of the six-college population of reference librarians, were interviewed. Communication between faculty members and most reference librarians was found to be infrequent and of a low order. Librarians seldom initiated communication. College A librarians reported a higher level of communication with the faculty than did their colleagues from other colleges. College A librarians were more active in the initiation of communication with the faculty. Interview responses of forty humanities and social sciences faculty members from two colleges corroborated findings derived from the survey and from interviews with librarians. It as concluded that the general level of communication between librarians and the faculty is low. The exception furnished by College A suggested that more effective communication is possible when the library environment provides the reference librarian with the time and opportunity for meaningful contact with the faculty, when the reference librarian feels strong support for his activity from the leadership of the library, and when the library defines and supports the goal of providing service at a level that is worth promoting.

MPACT Scores for Jerold A. Nelson

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calculated 2008-05-29 13:14:54

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