Through increasingly sophisticated computerization, libraries will evolve from being passive depositories of published materials to becoming dynamic information systems. Stored information will be analyzed and recoinbined in original ways which are similar to the processes occurring on the frontiers of disciplines which are giving rise to new combined disciplines: Thus the partnership of computerized information systems and interdisciplinary scientific research will vastly widen the frontiers of human discovery.

Abstract Software developers work too hard and yet do not get enough,done. Developing high quality software efficiently and consistently is a very difficult problem. Developers and managers have tried many,different solutions to address this problem. Recently their focus has shifted from the software organization to the individual software developer. The Personal Software Process incorporates many,of the previous solutions while focusing on the individual software developer. I combined ideas from prior research on the Personal Software Process, Formal Technical Review and my experiences building automated support for software engineering activities to produce the Leap toolkit. The Leap toolkit is intended to help individuals in their efforts to improve their development capabilities. Since it is a light-weight, flexible, powerful, and private tool, it allows individual developers to gain valuable insight into their own development,process. The Leap toolkit also addresses many,measurement,and data issues involved with recording any software development,process. The main thesis of this work is the Leap toolkit provides a more accurate and effective way for developers to collect and analyze their software engineering data than manual,methods. To evaluate this thesis I will investigate three claims: (1) the Leap toolkit prevents many,important errors in data collection and analysis; (2) the Leap toolkit supports data collection and analyses that are not amenable,to manual,enactment; and (3) the Leap toolkit reduces the level of “collection