Little is known about the habits or attitudes of university general public (Negroponte, 1995) and for the teaching faculty towards the use of networked information. In orand learning and the scholarly functions of colleges and der to gain some understanding of this matter, a quesuniversities (DeSieno, 1995). In anticipation of a future tionnaire was mailed in the fall of 1995 to all faculty in 6 bright with promise, some are predicting a central role different departments at 8 universities across the counfor the kinds of services a library can offer: ''In the next try. Questions dealt with accessibility to networks, submission and/or subscription to electronic journals, use century, transformed by digital information and electronic of networks for other purposes (such as access to data communication, the library becomes the common ground sets or searching library catalogs), and effects of netof the university and the community'' (Plater, 1995, p. worked information on collaboration. In general, the fac-39). In the midst of the excitement and the hope, higher ulty tend to be conservative in their use and attitudes, since their institutions tend to be conservative. This is education has to come to grips with a fairly entrenched particularly evident regarding submission of work to pattern of behavior by faculty, along with a complex set electronic journals, which tend to be perceived as not of pressures imposed upon it by questions regarding the contributing to instrumental goals, such as promotion present scholarly communication system and the delicate and tenure. On the other hand, there are indications that balance of costs for technological development and networked information does have an impact on some faculty members' patterns of collaboration. Specifically, sources for funding the new developments. there seems to be some geographic and disciplinary
In the brave new world of digital information, there broadening. There are some apparent variances in reare bound to be some vestiges of the world as we have sponses by such demographic variables as gender, rank, known it for so long. While the world of higher education and departmental affiliation.