Resistance to Change in Libraries: Application of Communication Theories

Weiner, Sharon Gray

doi:10.1353/pla.2003.0022

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“…However, some argue these professional shifts might be necessary for the survival of libraries (Glogoff, 2001;Weiner, 2003). Researchers in library science have noted that the changes that are coming in the future will be transformative professional and organizational changes that will challenge the core philosophies and structures of research libraries (Goble, 1997;Riggs, 1997Riggs, , 1998Riggs, , 2001Weiner, 2003).…”

Section: Responding To Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Librarians and the complexity of individual and organizational change: Case study findings of an emergent research library

Gilstrap¹

2009

Advances in Library Administration and Organization

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Section: Responding To Changementioning

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Librarians and the complexity of individual and organizational change: Case study findings of an emergent research library

Gilstrap¹

2009

Advances in Library Administration and Organization

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“…Rural health professionals will require ongoing education and the support of early adopters and champions from within their health services to develop the skills required to make most effective use of these electronic resources. 5 …”

Section: Commentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rural health professionals’ use of a clinical information web site in Western Australia

Shaw

Lundy

Larson

2006

Australian J Rural Health

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Health information services in various parts of the world have responded to the information needs of isolated health professionals by establishing clinical information web sites. Examples include the National Electronic Library for Health in the UK and Virtual Health in the USA. One such Australian portal is Clinical Information Access Online (CIAO) of the Department of Health Western Australia, a 24-hour Internet portal to indexing databases, textbooks and drug directories, electronic journals and 'free links'. 1 These products meet a diverse range of needs from quick reference guide to a source of current best clinical evidence.CIAO has two important functions. First, it provides evidence-based, decision-support information to professionals at the point of health care delivery. Second, it ensures access to current health information for rural and remote health professionals, a group who do not have access to the same kinds of health information resources as metropolitan health professionals. However, rural and remote health professionals experience difficulties in accessing electronic information. 2-4 The purpose of this study was to establish benchmarks of clinicial information web site use by rural and remote health professionals. Methods, participants and resultsQuestionnaire data collected for an evaluation of CIAO have been used to compare the CIAO 'use' by rural and urban state-employed health professionals. The concept of 'use' has been defined in terms of three variables: CIAO awareness, CIAO access and purpose for using CIAO (see Table 1 for a conceptual framework). Comparisons have been made between rural and urban stratums and among occupation groups within the two stratums.The respondents were drawn using proportional stratified sampling by location and occupation and then randomly sampled. Location stratums were 'rural', from the country health services and 'urban', from the various metropolitan-based health services excluding tertiary hospitals. This population included 754 rural and 664 urban state-employed health professionals. They were then grouped into one of four occupation groups including allied and public health, management and project, medical officer and nurse. Contact was attempted with 404 people and 169 (rural 89, urban 80) were interviewed.The distributions of categorical variables for rural and urban respondents were compared using a chisquared test. A probability level of 0.05 was considered to indicate if the differences in distributions were the result of chance. We found that rural health professionals were significantly more confident in their use of the Internet, significantly more aware of CIAO and had significantly higher rates of one-time use of CIAO (Table 2). About half of rural respondents as compared with about one-third of urban respondents were one-time CIAO users (Table 2). When all rural respondents were calculated for frequency of use, 8% (urban 6%) used it weekly, 11% (urban 9%) monthly, 31% (urban 19%) less than monthly and 49% (urban 67%) were non-users. Rural ...

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“…Hardware-driven changes require much less change investment and are less abstract than those that are procedure-oriented. This points to the need for ample training and communication (Weiner, 2003). Kopcha (2008) that such a teacher-centered approach was effective with encouraging adoption, providing justin-time support to maintain momentum and addressing the other barriers to adoption.…”

Section: Implementation Environments and Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are several reasons users have to resist technology-based change including fear of job termination, loss of status and deeply ingrained habits. However, the author also suggests that once a first innovation is adopted, there seems to be a seal that is broken allowing for subsequent adoptions to occur with more ease (Weiner, 2003).…”

Section: Implementation Environments and Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Technology Use in Higher Education Instruction

Elzarka

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The significance of integrating technology use in higher education instruction is undeniable. The benefits include those related to access to instruction by underserved populations, adequately preparing students for future careers, capitalizing on best instructional practices, developing higher order thinking activities, and engaging students whose relationships with technology are increasingly native, among others. The significance of the current study is based on the fact that few prior studies focused on the factors that support, or inhibit, the use of educational technology by faculty in schools of education. The data collection instrument was a survey designed by the principal investigator based on review of the literature and professional experience. Five constructs were addressed by the survey: institutional policies, belief in the learning benefits, efficacy with integrating technology with content, barriers to technology use, and personal uses of technology. The survey was administered online and targeted 379 full and part time faculty in schools of education throughout the U.S. A total of 203 faculty members responded which was a response rate of 53%. Several path analyses were conducted to determine the variables that most related with the dependent variable, rate of technology adoption for professional instructional purposes. The variable that had the strongest relationship with the adoption rate for professional use was the adoption rate for personal use. This held true for all subgroups except part-time and older faculty. Suggestions for future research include the use of additional data sources to measure the variables described here. Study of the role of institutional policies in technology adoption should consider administrator perspectives in addition to those of faculty. Study of learning benefits should consider students' views in addition to those of faculty. Finally, efficacy variables should consider perspectives of college leaders and administrators.v Acknowledgement

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Resistance to Change in Libraries: Application of Communication Theories

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Librarians and the complexity of individual and organizational change: Case study findings of an emergent research library

Librarians and the complexity of individual and organizational change: Case study findings of an emergent research library

Rural health professionals’ use of a clinical information web site in Western Australia

Technology Use in Higher Education Instruction

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