Staff Resistance to Library CD-ROM Services.

Giesbrecht, Walter

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ERIC Number: EJ427457

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Publication Date: 1991

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Staff Resistance to Library CD-ROM Services.

Giesbrecht, Walter

CD-ROM Professional, v4 n3 p34-38 May 1991

Discusses reasons for staff resistance to library CD-ROM services based on responses on electronic bulletin boards from primarily academic libraries in North America and the United Kingdom. Highlights include psychological reasons; problems of multiple interfaces; increased teaching load; increased costs; increased stress; maintenance time; and hardware/software issues. (four references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Software, Costs, Electronic Mail, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Librarians, Library Materials, Library Services, Man Machine Systems, Microcomputers, Optical Data Disks, Resistance to Change, Stress Management

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: North America; United Kingdom

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