Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1996

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Curl, Donald W.

Abstract

Florida Atlantic University library was planned to be the most modern, efficient, and impressive in the world, the model for the library of the future. Edward M. Heiliger, its first director, was the world's leading authority on library automation during the 1960s. He assembled a team that solved many problems using the computer technology of the time. The library received a Herculean task: to design and implement a new system while establishing a collection. Administrators, educators, and students came to FAU to take part in a different concept in education, a place where advanced technology would be merged into the learning process, but they brought traditional views and values. Despite the best of intentions and bold prognostications, insufficient funding and the ingrained ideas of its users prevented the realization of the library's potential.

Extent

119 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT15272

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