Technology can transform libraries. It offers the possibility of moving from the traditional card catalog to the computerized electronic catalog. Computerized networks allow for resource sharing among academic libraries Technological changes are costly dollarwise, and if such changes are not understood and supported by faculty members, they may be even educationally more costly because technological development may not alter faculty perceptions of academic library services within the faculty component of higher education several developments may have changed the hi can perception of an academic library. One of these is the faculty members who are part time instructors, arnegie Foundation survey data for 1984 arnogi ept. Additionally, many "new" facus have experienced technological advancements in research, such as databas searche electronic library loans. and computer based information skills havin mastered or at least having become aware of these information sources altered the opinions these faculty have of an academic library?