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crl-15513	Coffey, Daniel; Lawson, Karen	Managing Meaning: Language and Technology in Academic Libraries	2002	12	.pdf	application/pdf	6516	254	48	On the other hand, a high proportion of administrators had below a fifty percent recognition level for nearly half of the technological terms identified in the survey, and the authors received only one comment on the low level of confidence of IT administrators in their dean/director ’s level of under- standing of technological terminology, and that was: “but why does that mat- ter?” Although the words themselves do not appear to be perceived as a problem for library administrators, how the words are used is definitely an issue for the admin- istrators who gave an example that would illustrate their answer to either the sur- vey question about the nature of techno- logical discussions in their library or the question about their perceived level of alienation from the technological deci- sion-making process. As might be expected, IT profes- sionals seldom or never felt alienated from the technological decision-making process in their libraries because of ter- minology and, to a great extent, neither do other library administrators.	cache/crl-15513.pdf	txt/crl-15513.txt