| Purpose of the study. Purpose of the study was to determine the extent to which current training is preparing professional librarians in colleges and universities to access Internet, through application of a Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) survey methodology. Subpurposes of the study were: (1) To determine Stages of Concern (SoC) within well-defined categories by individuals at selected institutions. (2) To describe succinctly relationships between training, experience, network use, and expressed concerns of academic librarians.;Procedure. A CBAM survey was administered to academic librarians in the AMIGOS Consortium. Analyses of responses were conducted on 180 returned survey instruments to determine levels of ability and performance, approaches to training, and tasks performed and SoC. Respondents' self-perceived qualities of experience, personal assessments of worth of their received training, and individual ratings of comparative networking skills were assessed and appropriate statistical processes were performed to determine relationships between stated demographic characteristics and (SoC), employing established CBAM methodological criteria.;Findings. Results show primary concerns for academic librarians regardless of type of training received were concentrated within higher-level Stages of Concern. Highest level for every group were Collaboration concerns. The majority of groups showed second-highest concerns for Consequence. Two groups, those who have received no training or were self-trained expressed second-highest level concerns as Personal. Information concerns were either third- or fourth-highest for every group. For all groups, four SoC-Stage 5, Collaboration; Stage 4, Consequence; Stage 2, Personal; and Stage 1, Information, were scored 20 points or higher on the CBAM scale, indicating more intense concerns.;Conclusions. Academic librarians are generally dissatisfied with quality of received training for network use. Quality of training was uniformly ranked very low by respondents. No demographic factors were shown to have consistent positive or negative correlation to each of seven SoC. |
