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Managerial Style and the Use of Statistical Data in Techincal Services Units in Selected Academic Libraries

The primary purpose of this study was to test the following hypothesis: The internal use (use within the technical services unit for decision making and planning) of statistical data will be significantly higher for managers scoring in the Sensing-Thinking (ST) scale of the self-assessment instrument Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. A Technical Services Statistics Survey Form was developed in order to collect statistical data from the technical services managers participating in the study. The Myer… more

Date: December 1992

Creator: Karpuk, Deborah J.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Plans for Establishing and Developing the Social Research Studies and Information Center Libraries in Saudi Arabia

The problem was to define the present status of the Social Research Studies and Information Center libraries in Saudi Arabia and to suggest ways in which they could be improved. The purposes of the study were two-fold: (1) to analyze and evaluate the current status of these libraries and to develop and improve the role and functions of these libraries; and (2) to consider the possibility of cooperation between these libraries.

Date: August 1990

Creator: Kahtani, Abdullah S. Mossa (Abdullah Salem Mossa)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Effect of an Adaptation of the Lozanov Method on Vocabulary Definition Retention

The purpose of the study was to determine if there is an effect on retention of vocabulary when music and imagery are used, to accelerate learning. As background for the study four brain functioning theories as developed from recent neuroscientific research were explored. These were the theory of right/left cerebral dominance (Sperry & others), triune brain theory (MacLean), taxon and locale long term memory (O'Keefe & Nadel), and holographic memory (Pribram). These four theories all suggest mu… more

Date: December 1982

Creator: Martin, Barbara Stein, 1947-

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Selected Factors Associated With Reading Interests of Seventh- and Eighth-grade Pupils

This study sought to determine if there were differences in the types of reading interests of seventh- and eighth-grade pupils associated with their racial origins, their socioeconomic status, or their school environments. It also sought to consider the strength of reading interest scores as related to other variables and to consider the relationship between these scores and the number of hours spent in reading and the change in amount of reading since the previous school year.

Date: May 1984

Creator: Newman, Nancy Ann

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Relationships of Selected Factors to Library Use and Attitudes Among Students in a College of Business Administration

This study was an inquiry into the use of the library and attitudes toward librarians and libraries by 484 academic business majors. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire administered to a sample of all business majors at one university. Demographic and social status data, based on Hollingshead's categories, and responses to statements concerning library use, librarians, and libraries were analyzed by means of the Kolmorogov-Smirnov Test, the Median Test and Spearman correlation coeffi… more

Date: August 1985

Creator: Drake, Betty S. (Betty Sue)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Personal Reading Interests of Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade Children in Selected Arkansas Public Schools

The purpose of this study was to determine the personal reading interests of students in the third, fourth and fifth grades and to determine if advances in technology in the past twenty years have changed their reading interests.

Date: December 1991

Creator: Berry, Mary Ann

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Effects of Increased Equipment Speed on Online Database Searching Practices

This study reports changes in online database searching at North Texas State University when equipment speed was increased. Data were from database vendor invoices and price and sale data of online equipment. The hypotheses examined the relationship between the decrease in the cost of online equipment and the change to faster online equipment and the change in the number of databases that changed for online types. The change in equipment was related to changes in the number of offline prints pe… more

Date: May 1987

Creator: Masters, Gary E. (Gary Everett)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

A Study of Graphically Chosen Features for Representation of TREC Topic-Document Sets

Document representation is important for computer-based text processing. Good document representations must include at least the most salient concepts of the document. Documents exist in a multidimensional space that difficult the identification of what concepts to include. A current problem is to measure the effectiveness of the different strategies that have been proposed to accomplish this task. As a contribution towards this goal, this dissertation studied the visual inter-document relation… more

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Date: May 2000

Creator: Oyarce, Guillermo Alfredo

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Librarians' Attitudes Toward Computers, Desktop Publishing Systems and Expert Systems

In the discipline of librarianship there is very little existing research from which conclusions regarding attitudes toward computers and related technology can be drawn. Furthermore, there is no significant data available which indicates that attitudes differ between various groups or types of librarians. It is reasonable to assume that librarians' attitudes toward computers vary. This study examines a group of academic librarians and a group of public librarians and tests for significant dif… more

Date: August 1992

Creator: Enoch, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Mark)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Attitudes Toward the Contemporary Role of the Library Media Specialist in the Overall Elementary School Program in North Central Texas

The purpose of this study, in addition to measuring and comparing attitudes of teachers, principals and library media specialists toward the role of the school library media specialist, was to identify and measure factors contributing to those attitudes. Nine factors were identified. Further path analysis revealed that the performance level of the library media specialist had the most influence on principals' and teachers' attitudes toward the Consultant, Technological and Instructional Roles. … more

Date: December 1989

Creator: Roach, Catharyn

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

An Evaluation of the Effect of Learning Styles and Computer Competency on Students' Satisfaction on Web-Based Distance Learning Environments

This study investigates the correlation between students' learning styles, computer competency and student satisfaction in Web-based distance learning. Three hundred and one graduate students participated in the current study during the Summer and Fall semesters of 2002 at the University of North Texas. Participants took the courses 100% online and came to the campus only once for software training. Computer competency and student satisfaction were measured using the Computer Skill and Use Asse… more

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Date: August 2003

Creator: Du, Yunfei

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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The Teaching of Children's Poetry: An Exploration of Instructional Practices in University Courses of Children's Literature, English, Language Arts, and Reading Education

There are no studies which focus on the instructional practices employed in the teaching of children's poetry at the university level. This project aimed to describe the instructional practices utilized in the teaching of children's poetry at universities across the United States. Limited to the practices of the university professors and adjunct instructors who were members of the Children's Literature Assembly (CLA) of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) at the time of this stud… more

Date: December 2004

Creator: Jacko, June Marie

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Elementary School Climate Factors and Personality and Status Variables Associated with School Library Media Specialists Chosen by Classroom Teachers for Cooperation on Instructional Problems

This study investigated relationships between the extent to which elementary classroom teachers tend to choose school library media specialists for cooperation on instructional problems and several school climate and faculty related characteristics including the general academic effectiveness of the school, the overall cohesion and cooperativeness of the teaching faculty on instructional matters, and the propensity of the group and individual faculty to seek cooperation to solve instructional p… more

Date: December 1990

Creator: Bell, Michael David, 1943-

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Comparison and Contrast of Perceptions of Current and Ideal Levels of Involvement with Tasks Performed by School Library Media Supervisors

Comparison and contrast of perceptions of current and ideal levels of Involvement with 50 tasks by 45 district level school library media supervisors in Texas public schools was accomplished using a survey instrument eliciting information in three areas: Curriculum and Instruction, Public Relations and Communication, Actainistration and Budget. Using tasks based on a Texas Education Agency publication, i, tests for correlated means were used to determine statistically significant differences be… more

Date: December 1989

Creator: McCulley, Lois P. (Lois Perry)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Factors Influencing Older Adults' Patterns of Information Acquisition

A group of 101 older adults (sixty-five years of age and over) who lived independently in three retirement apartment residences in Denton, Texas, were asked about their patterns of reading, television viewing, and radio listening habits for two periods in their lives: (1) at age forty to fifty-five and (2) at the present. Respondents were asked about their use of external information sources (public library, grocery store, newsstand, etc.) and their use of proximate information sources (radio, … more

Date: May 1989

Creator: Barnett, Mary Jane, 1952-

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Nature of Reading Instruction in a Literature-based Reading Program

The purpose of this study was to describe the nature of reading instruction in a program using children's trade books instead of basal readers, and to identify patterns resulting in hypotheses regarding the nature of instruction. The study informs practitioners by providing descriptions of actual instruction, enabling readers to envision how reading instruction is accomplished using children's trade books, and it informs the research community by developing grounded theory concerning the nature… more

Date: August 1992

Creator: Canavan, Diane D.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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A Descriptive Study of Statewide Bibliographic Databases

This dissertation has compiled information about statewide bibliographic databases, their format, their cost, the number of titles and records, how they are being used, what kinds of libraries are using such databases in each state, and the effectiveness of those databases. General information about twenty-eight states' bibliographic databases is included in this dissertation. The users of thirteen states responded to a questionnaire, surveying the effectiveness of the statewide database in the… more

Date: August 1992

Creator: Gardner, Stan (Stan A.)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Relationships Among a Reading Guidance Program and the Reading Attitudes, Reading Achievement, and Reading Behavior of Fifth Grade Children in a North Louisiana School

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not the introduction of a regular librarian-centered reading guidance program as an integral part of the entire school program would improve the reading attitudes and habits of elementary school students and increase the reading achievement scores on a standardized test of elementary school students. In addition, the reading attitudes of students were compared with reading achievement scores to assess any relationship between the two.

Date: August 1986

Creator: Mosley, Mattie Jacks

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Sanctioned and Controlled Message Propagation in a Restrictive Information Environment: The Small World of Clandestine Radio Broadcasting

This dissertation seeks to identify the elements that inform the model for competing message propagation systems in a restrictive environment. It pays attention to message propagation by sanctioned and clandestine radio stations in pre- and post-independent Zimbabwe. This dissertation uses two models of message propagation in a limiting information environment: Sturges' information model of national liberation struggle and Chatman's small world information model. All the message propagation el… more

Date: December 2007

Creator: Wachanga, David Ndirangu

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Job Satisfaction Among Academic Librarians

The purpose of this research was to identify predictors of job satisfaction among academic librarians. Structural models were developed and examined with path analytic procedures to determine the effects of the following variables on librarians' job satisfaction: 1) selected characteristics of individual librarians (education, experience, sex, age, salary, and position), 2) selected characteristics of library organizations (annual budget, sex of director, size of staff, average annual salary of… more

Date: May 1982

Creator: Glasgow, Bonnie Jean Loyd

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Relationship of Characteristics of the Research Methods used in two Subfields of Geology and the Growth of Published Research in those Subfields

The major problem addressed by this study was to investigate the relationship between characteristics of the research methods used in selected subject subfields and the growth of published research in those subfields.

Date: December 1982

Creator: Stephenson, Mary Sue

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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User Satisfaction in a Government Library : A Case Study of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Saudi Arabia

The problem of this study was the lack of knowledge about user satisfaction with the library services which are provided at the library of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in Saudi Arabia. The purposes of the study were twofold: (1) to measure, evaluate, and analyze user satisfaction with the library services provided at the MFA Library for the employees; and (2) to develop a model for evaluation of user satisfaction of library services in government libraries in Saudi Arabia.

Date: August 1991

Creator: Tameem, Jamal Abbas

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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A Comparative Analysis of Reading Habits and Abilities of Students in Selected Elementary Schools in North Louisiana With and Without Centralized Libraries

The problem addressed by this investigation is whether the provision of centralized school library services is related to the reading habits and reading abilities of elementary school children. In considering this problem, a survey approach was utilized which entailed the examination of standardized reading achievement test scores, student reading records, and parent, teacher, and student questionnaire responses.

Date: August 1984

Creator: Lowe, Joy L. (Joy Lambert)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Factors Related to Mississippi School Library Media Centers in Multitype Cooperation

The main purpose of this study was to identify the major obstacles to cooperation as perceived by school library media specialists in the state of Mississippi and to determine if members of the Coastal Mississippi Library Cooperative (CMLC) believe that there are fewer obstacles to cooperation than do non-members. The secondary purpose was to evaluate the CMLC to some extent to determine if success was achieved through organization when defined by the variables, planning, governance, funding, c… more

Date: May 1988

Creator: Partridge, Margaret

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries