Abstract
Academic librarians can leverage their expertise in using and teaching with information technology to increase their level of collaboration with teaching faculty. In this change of role, the incorporation of information technology requires significant psychological support and increased collaboration. Three intertwining strands of theories and models are discussed with relationship to librarian collaboration with teaching faculty in support of information technology integration: technology acceptance, change or development processes, and social impact. Each strand is examined through a lens of the affective domain. As librarians collaborate with teaching faculty, they should be aware of the affective side of technology.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Innovation: New idea, practice, or object.
Affectivity Quality: The ability of a stimulus to cause a change in core effect.
Technology adoption: The stage at which a technology is mentally accepted by an individual or an organization .
Perception of Affective Quality: An individual’s perception of a stimulus’s ability to change the core effect.
Technology adoption: The stage at which a technology is mentally accepted by an individual or an organization .
Technology Diffusion: The stage in which the technology spreads to general use and application.
Technology Diffusion: The stage in which the technology spreads to general use and application.
Core Affect: Non-reflective feeling, blending pleasure/pain and arousal/activation.
Core Affect: Non-reflective feeling, blending pleasure/pain and arousal/activation.
Information Literacy: The ability to identify, access, evaluate, use, communicate and manage information.
Affective Domain: Emotions and their outward expression.
Collaboration: Interdependent working relationship to achieve shared goals.
Affective Domain: Emotions and their outward expression.
Innovation: New idea, practice, or object.
Collaboration: Interdependent working relationship to achieve shared goals.
Affectivity Quality: The ability of a stimulus to cause a change in core effect.
Integration: A sense of acceptance, and perhaps transparency, within the user environment.
Information Literacy: The ability to identify, access, evaluate, use, communicate and manage information.
Integration: A sense of acceptance, and perhaps transparency, within the user environment.
Perception of Affective Quality: An individual’s perception of a stimulus’s ability to change the core effect.