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In response to: Questions for faculty interviews

Pat Maughan [Visitor] — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:29:19 +0000

To your excellent list, I would perhaps add the following:

Are there current or emerging trends
in the way you or your colleagues
teach -- including assignments --
that the library should know about?

Are there typical times during the
day that you do things related to your
research and where you visit certain
places?

PROBE: What is it about these
places that facilitates your research
and makes you more productive?

What kinds of information resources
do you like to use?

PROBE: What attributes/features
do these sources possess that make
them attractive to use?

What kinds of media do you use?

During what points in the research
process do you use the library?

PROBE: How might the library better
assist you at these times?

Under question 9. I would insert
"the campus" before state and national
borders.

Pat Maughan

In response to: Questions for faculty interviews

gford [Member] — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:19:53 +0000

One faculty member i spoke to used to do a lot of work on historical materials and was in the stacks a lot. She mentioned in passing the other day that her interests have shifted to contemporary topics and she does almost all of her research online. I wonder how much of this shift was because the world of the internet is so seductive...an interesting question (although I'm not sure whether/how it affects Library services?) would be, "how much has the internet changed the topics that you choose to pursue?"

In response to: Questions for faculty interviews

jkupersm [Visitor] — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:11:31 +0000

These are all good questions, but (except for one mention of teaching) they focus on the faculty as researchers. It would also be interesting to get their views on their students' level of research skills, how that level may be changing over time, and what they think their role and our role should be in teaching research skills and "information literacy". Same goes for the grad student questions, in their possible role as GSI's.