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Volume 18, Issue 4
1 April 1990
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Review Article| April 01 1990

Technostress: Surviving a database crash Available to Purchase

Linda S. Dobb
Linda S. Dobb
Assistant library director for Administrative Services, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-1716
Print ISSN: 0090-7324
© MCB UP Limited
1990
Reference Services Review (1990) 18 (4): 49–65.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049107

We have all had experience with the stress caused by an increase in library technology—CD‐ROMs with different user interfaces, online catalogs with different command structures than our CD‐ROMs, and still different protocols for accessing remote databases. Yet, can you imagine the stress that can result from a crash of a local bibliographic and circulation database? I can—because it happened to me.

© MCB UP Limited
1990
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