The purpose of the study was to examine the vocational-technical shop collections in public two-year colleges and to compare the perceptions of vocational-technical faculty and librarians regarding the relationship between the shop collection and the library as they relate to the vocational-technical instructional program. / Base data concerning the size, type of materials, budgetary and bibliographic control, use, circulation and accessibility of materials in shop collections in junior colleges and technical schools was collected. / Hypotheses were tested to investigate the perceptions of faculty and librarians regarding (1) the role of the shop collection, (2) the relationship of the shop collection to the central learning resources center and (3) the use and value of the learning resources center for the vocational-technical instructional programs. / A mail questionnaire was used to collect data. The population consisted of librarians and vocational-technical faculty in community colleges and technical schools in six southern states. / Frequency counts, responses in terms of percentages and chi-square test of significance statistics were used to analyze the findings and test the hypotheses. / Although the trend in community colleges is toward centralization of resources, the results of this study indicated over sixty percent of the faculty have shop collections. Most of these collections had fewer than 300 items consisting of general works in subject area, textbooks, audio-visual materials and magazines and journals. Faculty and Librarians perceived the shop collections as primary sources of instructional materials for vocational-technical programs but they also believed shop collections were supplemental to the central library. Faculty considered the library's holdings in their subject areas less adequate and placed less importance on the use of library materials to expand course content than did librarians. Faculty and librarians agreed that geographic location was an important determinant of use. The faculty believed that materials housed in the library would receive more use if located in a more accessible shop collection. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-11, Section: A, page: 4632. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74690 |
| Contributors | MANIKAS, JENNIFER KAREN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 146 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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