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Oppenheim, Charles; Smithson, Daniel – Journal of Information Science, 1999
Discusses hybrid libraries in higher education based on the influence of eLib (Electronic Libraries Programme) in the United Kingdom and on interviews with staff involved in hybrid libraries. Topics include cultural shift; considerations about libraries of the future, including use of electronic resources and costs; and a proposed model of a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Appropriate Technology, Costs, Electronic Libraries
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Lending, Diane; Straub, Detmar W. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1997
Describes an ethnographic study of a selected group of faculty end-users; the purpose of this qualitative assessment was to triangulate on several phenomena under investigation to better understand the impacts of the Integrated Information Center (IIC) at the University of Minnesota on end-user work behaviors. (Author/JAK)
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, College Faculty, Ethnography, Evaluation Methods
Fichten, Catherine; Barile, Maria; Asuncion, Jennison V. – 1999
This report discusses the outcomes of a project that investigated the computer, information, and learning and adaptive technology needs and concerns of Canadian postsecondary students with disabilities. A series of four bilingual focus groups involving 31 individuals was held. Focus groups included postsecondary students with various disabilities;…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Computer Uses in Education
Messing, John – 1998
The goals of this study at Charles Sturt University (Australia) were to collect and interpret data about the way that students used various features of an electronic study guide in the context of a distance education setting and to uncover any relationship that affected the desirability of this medium of delivering educational materials. The study…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Educational Environment