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help to create a more positive and better learning experience for students. This would
reinforce the teaching mission of a Master's I university like Angelo State University.
This interaction could also help with retention issues faced by many campuses similar to
Angelo State University.
For this group of faculty members, the Intemrnet played an important, if not central,
role in meeting their research and classroom information needs. Angelo State University
faculty members not currently using the Intemrnet could be seen by students as being
behind the times and providing a lesser education experience.
Because of the amount of Intemrnet use reported by the faculty members in the
questionnaire and interview phases of this research project, University administrators,
Information Technology staff members, and University Library staff members must
insure that increasing resources are devoted to provided more and better access to on-line
sources of information. To meet the request for additional training and to make active
Internet users out of non-users, Information Technology and University Library staff
members must develop new and subject oriented training programs to bring non-users on-
line and enhance the existing search capabilities of active Intemrnet users.
Implications of Findings
This research project was part of the recent trend of studying the information
needs and uses and the behavioral characteristics of information seekers as outlined by
Reneker (1993). Dervin and Nilan (1986) first identified the shift from studying the
system to focusing on the information users and their searching behaviors. Coupled with99
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Fortin, Maurice G. Faculty Use of the World Wide Web: Modeling Information Seeking Behavior in a Digital Environment, dissertation, December 2000; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2723/m1/106/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .