This survey of one group of faculty highlights the need for such information in the planning of library-use instruction by librarians, individual faculty and first year experience programs. I asked our full-time faculty to complete a 25 item questionnaire and make comments on their experiences in academic libraries as undergraduate and graduate students because I am in need of some anecdotes for a paper. One half of the full-time faculty responded. The responses to the questions and some of the comments reassured me that my long held belief that the undergraduate experience of faculty, who are now in their forties and fifties, contributes to what some librarians sometimes see as a problem. I will discuss the questions and responses as simple percentages overall and within age group and type of undergraduate institution.
Numbers are too small for a proper analysis.
Several anecdotes are quite revealing of the schism which sometimes exists between librarians and faculty. Relevant literature will be briefly discussed, as will suggestions for a larger, more comprehensive study. Technostress is not a new concept. They learned about it, dealt with it, and then tossed it on the trash heap of issues that had been resolved. I presented this session almost 2 years ago for a job interview and yet it seems very relevant to academic libraries today.