Abstract
M.Tech. (Production Management)
The development of technikons into autonomous tertiary
technical educational institutions, offering education
up to doctorate level, conducting research, offering
vocational and continuing education, brought with them
libraries which cannot provide in the requirements set
to them.
This study investigates the place for a library in the
Technikon Witwatersrand and some of the environmental
influences that have a bearing on the library. It
continues from there to determine the library
infrastructure of the Witwatersrand in order to
establish the presence and accessibility of
information sources. A framework is then developed
according to which the needs of the users of the
library determined.
user categories are then identified and their
needs for information sources determined.
The study continues from there to develop this framework on a computer so that it can be used in planning for the provision of information sources to technologists in the future. The study is concluded with recommendations regarding the provision of
information sources.