The AIR Professional File
Summer-Fall 1981, Article 10
Computing and Office Automation—Changing Variables
https://doi.org/10.34315/apf0101981Abstract
Trends in computing and office automation—and ways in which these technologies might be incorporated into administrative activities—is a topic of present interest in higher education. Individuals responsible for planning, institutional research, and general administrative support (the "assistant to" officers who support deans, directors, presidents, and vice presidents) are particularly interested.
This article reviews some of the events which are causing significant changes in our understanding about how technologically based information-processing services will be provided and who will provide them. After a brief introduction, factors such as computing literacy, office automation, the availability of trained personnel, service models, and technological change are considered and are followed by some comments on implications for institutional research and a concluding summary.
Author
E M. Staman
Copyright © Association for Institutional Research 1981
Date: 1981
Pages: 6
ISSN: 2155-7535