Terminal Paralysis or Showdown at the Interface

Fine, Sara

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Description

Title

Terminal Paralysis or Showdown at the Interface

Author(s)

Fine, Sara

Issue Date

1985

Keyword(s)

• Libraries --Automation
• Library personnel management
• Online library catalogs
• Library catalogs and users

Abstract

"In 1978, the first of a series of national research studies was undertaken at the University of Pittsburgh on a phenomenon that was beginning to attract attention in librarianship resistance to technological innovation. 1 The application of technology to libraries was already in full swing and attention to the ""barriers"" to innovation and implementation was just beginning to hit the literature. Librarians, it seemed to some, were not moving fast enough. Librarians just did not seem to understand what was good for them. The reasons? The library literature gave plenty of reasons because librarians are fearful, timid, traditional, too lazy to learn, too entrenched in their ways, too possessive of their territory. In short, librarians were resistant to change. Resistance was seen as a single and simple phenomenon, a diagnostic label applied without discrimination to any behavior not seen as progressive or innovative or decisive. Resistance was an accusation, an exhortation, a cause for irritation and frustration to those who designed and planned for and then managed technological innovation."

Publisher

Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (22nd : 1985)

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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