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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: MICROCOMPUTER-BASED INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON THE USE OF MICROCOMPUTERS IN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Abstract: This study was an attempt to search for factors underlying the current trends of microcomputer usage in library systems affiliated with universities granting doctoral-level degree programs. A survey of 195 university library systems was conducted in the Fall 1984 followed by a phone interview with 25 out of the 116 respondents. The thesis put forward was that the level of involvement in microcomputers, as defined by (1) the number of micros acquired; (2) the degree of their contribution to computer-based systems; and (3) the level of policy support for micros, might be accounted for by six independent variables characterizing the data processing environment in the library systems surveyed. These included, (1) the degree of available computerization; (2) the planning approach to automation adopted; (3) the level of control over computing power; (4) the data processing method being used; (5) the degree of reliance on network and database services; and (6) the degree of reliance on commercial applications software. |
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