Dissertation Information for Lynne HowarthNAME:
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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: The impact of automation on operations and staffing configurations in cataloguing departments in public libraries: A study of four public library systems in the municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, Ontario, 1970-1986 Abstract: There has been little systematic, empirical research assessing the extent to which automation in public libraries has met managerial goals for improving productivity, decreasing staff, and lowering operating costs. This study investigated two research questions in this regard. First, did subscribing to a bibliographic utility for cataloguing support and/or implementing an in-house automated circulation system with an in-house bibliographic data base result in (1) an increase in productivity vis a vis numbers of titles catalogued and volumes processed, (2) a decrease in the number of cataloguing department staff, and (3) a reduction in the rate of rise of cataloguing departmental costs when compared with the pre-automation period? Second, what changes in productivity, staffing, and cost variables occurred when tasks associated with implementing an automated circulation system were added to the workflow of a cataloguing department already subscribing to the products and services of a bibliographic utility? |
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Students under Lynne Howarth
ADVISEES:
- Clement Arsenault - University of Toronto (2000)
- Anabel Quan-Haase - University of Toronto (2004)
- Dana Indra Sensuse - University of Toronto (2004)
- Muhammad Asim Qayyum - University of Toronto (2005)
- Mary Frances Cavanagh - University of Toronto (2009)
- Colin David Furness - University of Toronto (2010)
- Rumi Y Graham - University of Toronto (2011)
COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Scott Paquette - University of Toronto (2008)
- Sambhavi Chandrashekar - University of Toronto (2010)