This study sought to ascertain the proportions of time high school library media specialists with and without automated circulation systems spent in various work activity categories. Percentages were used to determine (1) if automating circulation activities made a difference in how a school library media specialist spent his/her time; (2) in what specific areas of a school library media specialist's workload automation made a difference; and (3) if by having an automated circulation system school library media specialists were better equipped to meet the challenges put forth in Information Power. / The percentages were calculated using work sampling. Subjects used random alarm mechanisms (RAMs) and pre-printed forms with work catagories listed to record the data. In response to a RAM, subjects checked the activity they were performing. Categories were constructed from a literature review and refined in a pilot study and by a panel of experts. / State and regional library media supervisors identified matched pairs of media specialists in Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. / Findings. Media specialists with automated circulation systems distributed their time differently than those who did not have them. The automated media specialists spent more time in development of the educational program, instructional development and use of technology. Nonautomated media specialists spent more time in circulation and production. No difference was found in administration, instruction, selection, processing, clerical, providing access, reference, organization, or personal time. / Estimates of the Standards Writing Committee of Information Power did not coincide with how either the automated or non-automated media specialists spent their time. The Committee over-estimated the devotion of the media specialists' time in both groups to curriculum and instructional development and underestimated the amount of time actually devoted to administration and personal time. They had also expected the automated group to spend more time in networking types of activities than actually occurred. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-12, Section: A, page: 3938. / Major Professor: Phyllis Van Orden. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78340 |
| Contributors | Everhart, Nancy Lou., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 189 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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