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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE BEHAVIORAL APPROACH TO LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES: AN EXPERIMENT INVOLVING THE GROUP AS AN AGENT OF CHANGE Abstract: The purpose of this study was to develop and test a training design that would modify library students' attitudes towards a behavioral approach in library and information science and to examine several predictors of such attitude. The analysis of the literature showed that symptoms of resistance to the behavioral approach in library and information science, a concept still at the innovation stage, exist among library and information science professionals. The hypotheses stated that (1) whatever the initial resistance of the majority of the subjects, assessed on an instrument measuring attitude towards a behavioral approach to library and information science, the treatment will decrease resistance, and (2) that resistance to innovation and change in libraries, to the behavioral sciences and psychology, as measured by attitude scales, and exposure to the behavioral sciences, are stronger predictors of attitude towards the behavioral approach in library and information science than demographics and work experience. |
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