Thesis (D.L.S.)--Columbia University, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-185).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 261-265). Also issued on the Internet.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Cincinnati, 1989. / Includes abstract. Bibliography: leaves 126-135.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1989. / Advisors: Philip J. Smith and Harvey G. Shulman, Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of South Florida, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 139-150).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers, 1993. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-109).

D.Ed. / The aim of the study is to determine whether the module Information Technology in Education can be taught by using online education. In order to attain the set aim, the objectives can be stated as follows: To undertake a study of the literature to determine: The dimensions of distance education. The dimensions of online education. To determine, by means of a field study, the following: The experiences of students who participated in the virtual classroom. The experiences of lecturers who participated in the virtual classroom. To determine, by comparison of examination marks, whether students achieve the same when being taught by means of online education as they do when they are being taught conventionally. Finally, to suggest a programme approach for an online implementation of the subject-field Information Technology in Education in specific South African contexts where students have limited computer skills and they do not have direct access to the Internet.

No published studies to date examined the practices in creation or adoption of metadata in cultural heritage institutions or evaluated metadata in bibliographic databases in the Arabian Gulf counties and assessed its potential interoperability in the aggregation that would provide a central point of access to bibliographic databases of cultural heritage institutions. This exploratory study aimed to address this gap with the goal of: (1) developing understanding of the current state of information representation and knowledge organization in cultural heritage collections in Arabian Gulf countries, and (2) exploring perspectives for future developments such as creating regional large-scale portals similar to Digital Public Library of America, Europeana etc. that facilitate discovery by aggregating metadata and possible barriers to these developments.. The study is focused on a Kuwaiti, Qatari, and Omani libraries, museums, and archives. The mixed-methods research combined semi-structured interviews of the bibliographic database managers at 15 cultural heritage institutions and in-depth content analysis of a sample of 412 metadata records that represent items in these bibliographic databases for accuracy, completeness, consistency, use of knowledge organization systems, etc. This study findings make a research contribution important for evaluating the feasibility and planning of future aggregations of cultural heritage bibliographic databases. Results provided insights into possible ways to achieve interoperability in metadata for such digital portals in the Arabian Gulf region.

This study reports changes in online database searching at North Texas State University when equipment speed was increased. Data were from database vendor invoices and price and sale data of online equipment. The hypotheses examined the relationship between the decrease in the cost of online equipment and the change to faster online equipment and the change in the number of databases that changed for online types. The change in equipment was related to changes in the number of offline prints per hour, the average time per search, the average number of descriptors per search, the number of searches per month, and the rank order of database use over the studied period. The increase in the number of databases with billed types was related to the number of online billed types produced. The number of prints was related to the number of billed types. Time spent online was examined for annual seasonal cycles. The major statistical tool was time-series analysis, although other methods were applied.

The aim of the thesis is to explore which attributes of expression and attributes of manifestation are commonly found in bibliographic records and compare them with the information needs of users. The research is focused on the Union catalog of the Czech Republic - CASLIN. In the theoretical part there are presented problems with attributes of expression and attributes of manifestation in model FRBR. In the research part there was performed content analysis of several bibliographic records owing to problems of attributes of expression and attributes of manifestation. In the research section there was made the analysis of information needs of users, too. As qualitative research methods were selected observation of participants and semi-structured interviews with respondents. The result of this thesis should be a comparison between reality in library catalogs and information needs of users.