ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the nature of academic computerization and administrative computerization. It summarizes the extent of computerization in four institutions of higher education: Stevens Institute of Technology, Iona College, Columbia University, and New York University. Perhaps the most important point regarding job mobility is that universities and colleges have never been characterized by extended career ladders. Libraries stand at the center of the effort of universities and colleges to apply modern technology to the mission of higher education. Libraries and/or computer service centers are increasingly making on-line data base retrieval services available to students and faculty. Campus networks and dial-in arrangements are beginning to make it possible to extend library catalog and bibliographic services to terminals or microcomputers in faculty offices, dormitories, and faculty and student homes. In time computer-assisted teaching may increase the ratio of students to faculty, at least for instruction in basic courses, and thus bring about economies.
