Faculty Use of Electronic Communications Before and After a LAN Installation

Abstract

Winter 1995 Electronic communications, the ability to communicate computer to computer, has been greatly enhanced by the widespread installation of local area networks (LANs). These networks have the ability to connect users in limited geographical areas and, through linkages with other mainframe computers, national and international networks. Networks are changing the way organizations do business. A currently installed base of 6.1 million LAN users in 1993 with a predicted increase to 14.5 million by 1995 indicates that networking is a major technological trend for which business devotes major computer funding (Ashton, 1993). This trend, which has also been experienced in colleges and universities, allows the business world and the academic world to be linked together worldwide and has the potential to drastically change the way in which people work.As O' Brien (1990) and others have noted, the use of electronic communications is causing major changes in busi-

Faculty Use and Non-Use of Electronic Mail: Attitudes, Expectations and Profiles

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