The purpose of the research was to investigate serials education in Master's degree programs in American Library Association accredited library schools in the United States and Canada. / A survey questionnaire was mailed to each of the directors of the sixty-eight accredited library schools with the request that attention be given to completing the questionnaire by personnel most knowledgeable concerning the school's serials program. Nineteen separate serials courses were discovered in the study. Nine telephone interviews were held with teachers of such courses in order to identify characteristics and objectives of separate courses. / Three categories of serials education were examined in the study: Serials Cataloging and Classification, Serials Acquisitions/Collection Development, and Serials Control. Parts of the questionnaire were: Concepts and Issues, Performance Expectations, and General Questions. Responses from schools having separate serials courses and from schools having non-separate courses were analyzed separately to determine whether or not there are significant differences between the two groups. / Major findings of the study showed that concepts and issues in Serials Cataloging and Classification and in Serials Acquisitions/Collection Development were taught to a creditable degree by the fifty-six schools responding. Somewhat less attention was given to Serials Control by all schools as a group. Significant differences were found in teaching the concepts examined in Serials Acquisitions/Collection Development and in Serials Control by schools teaching separate serials courses and by schools teaching non-separate courses with the former teaching such concepts to a greater extent. Performance expectations of student accomplishment in the Master's degree program and in filling beginning serials positions as MLS graduates were found to be for the most part consonant with the extent of concepts and issues taught. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-11, Section: A, page: 4528. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74341 |
| Contributors | COLLINS, AUDREY WHITE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 211 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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