Year: 1987
Type: article
Abstract: A response to "The ACLS Survey and Academic Library Service. "are indebted to Ronald Epp and JoAn Segal for spelling out some of the implications for librari ans of the ACLS Survey of Scholars (C&RL News, February 1987), but we disagree with some of their criticisms, and are troubled by others that either miss the mark or are dead wrong-including the attribution to us of statements that appear no where in our text.(The survey was conducted by the Office of Scholarly Communication and Tech nology, 1) to gather data about humanists and so cial scientists as producers and users of scholarly materials and 2) to obtain their views on a wide range of issues, such as library service, applications of new technology, and academic matters related to scholarly communication, such as peer review.A preliminary report of the findings appeared in the Summer 1986 issue of our newsletter, Scholarly Communication.)Like Epp and Segal, we will reserve our bou quets for the end, and we will begin directly with our rejoinder.Their criticisms fall mostly under two headings: that we slighted "areas of critical importance to the library community" and that we misinterpreted our own data.
Authors: Herbert C. Morton, Anne Jamieson Price
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2969721735