Needs Analyses Questions and Responses

In preparation for the first workshop, we would like each member of the four-person team from your campus to consult with her or his colleagues to draw on that constituency's various perspectives. Each team member need only answer the questions directed to the constituency he or she represents, but we suggest the team gather together to provide brief answers to the questions below. The project steering committee, with the help of student interns, will use these answers in helping to design the workshop. In answering the questions below, please consider what your role is in constructing and storing knowledge and how you can work together with the four constituencies involved in this workshop (librarians, faculty, students, and information technologists) to fulfill those roles. Completed forms from the Massachusetts and New York group should be emailed to Susan Perry and from the Pennsylvania group to Elliott Shore.

Questions for Faculty:
What is the course content and what are the pedagogical approaches for which you want to draw on technological resources? Map out the range and variation, including both the content and the kinds of resources you encounter and need. What roles and responsibilities do you currently assume regarding the use and instruction of technology?
What goals do you have for collaboration in this area?
What resources are you considering devoting to its future development?

Questions for Librarians:
What specific resources in the social sciences do you think would best contribute to or support student learning in the classroom? For each full-text database, index or other web-based information source, explain briefly how it could help expand the students' critical information gathering skills.
What roles and responsibilities do librarians on your campus currently assume regarding the instruction in the use of electronic information sources in support of student and faculty research?
What goals do you have for collaboration with faculty, students, and information technologists in the field of electronic information?

Questions for Students:
What are your learning and research needs as defined by course assignments? Map out the range and variation, including both the content and the kinds of resources you encounter and need.
What goals do you have for collaboration in this area?

Questions for Information Technologists:
What technologies could enhance student and faculty research/teaching/learning? Include a brief description of the technology and a brief explanation of its potential usefulness.
What roles and responsibilities do you currently assume regarding the use and
instruction of technology?
What goals do you have for collaboration in this area?
What resources are you considering devoting to its future development?