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- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- I am indebted to the numerous individuals who have
- helped me with advice, encouragement, support, and patience
- during the research and writing of this paper.
- First, I wish to express my love and thanks to my
- wife, Sandra Jean Meredith, for her encouragement and
- support, and for putting up with the family financial
- strain caused by my mid-career decision to seek the
- doctoral degree.
- Thanks to the members of my dissertation committee
- for their aid and counsel: to Associate Professor Mary M.
- Huston, for her advice, encouragement, and help with the
- overall project; to Dean Brooke E. Sheldon, for her general
- encouragement, and for recruiting and aiding me in this
- program, in the first place; to Professor James L. Thomas,
- for his editing of my drafts, and his insightful comments
- about the effectiveness of my communication; to Associate
- Professor Adeline W. Wilkes, for her thoughtful review of
- my methodology and conceptual model; and to Associate
- Professor Wayne Zimmermann, for his encouragement.
- I am also indebted to Professor Blanche Woolls,
- University of Pittsburg. Her pointed advice to: 1) narrow
- my focus, and 2) "get on with it," pushed me to a
- reasonable completion schedule.
- I wish to acknowledge the assistance of individuals
- encountered through the academic online networks, who have
- contributed information and aided me on a remote
- correspondence basis. These include: Dr. T.R. Girill, of
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Dr. Linda C. Smith,
- of the library school at the University of Illinois at
- Urbana-Champaign; Clifford Urr, Librarian at James Martin
- Associates; and especially to Roland Hjerppe, principal in
- the LIBLAB project, Linköping University, Linköping,
- Sweden. His generous supply of LIBLAB publications was
- invaluable to me, as was his general intellectual approach.
- Finally, many thanks and warm thoughts to Neil
- Larson, of MaxThink, Inc., Berkeley, California; and to
- Tony Phillips, of Pondlife Systems, Kentfield, California.
- These individuals were the implementors of the case study
- subject hypertext system. I am indebted to them for their
- help, their patience, and for teaching me a great deal
- about practical hypertext system operations, organization,
- and authoring. They each contributed a great deal of time,
- effort, insight, and friendship.